Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 88 contributors Fiona Crawford, Maggie Nolan and Sita Walker as they swipe right on contemporary culture. Discover the secret history of women’s football, explore the complexities of cultural heritage and find out why the kids are alright – plus enjoy a reading from fellow edition contributor Myles McGuire. 

Fiona Crawford is the author of The Matilda Effect and The Rise of the Matildas: Inside the Women’s World Cup Campaign, and co-author of Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football. An adjunct lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Justice, she has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, The Guardian, The Conversation and The Big Issue, among many others.  

Maggie Nolan is the director of AustLit, a comprehensive information resource for Australian literary, print and narrative culture, and Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. She has published on representations of race and ethnicity in Australian literary culture, literary imposture and reading and reception. She is currently a chief investigator on the ARC-funded Discovery project ‘Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature’. 

Sita Walker is a high school literature teacher, freelance writer and award-winning memoirist whose first book, The God of No Good (Ultimo Press, 2023), won The Courier-­Mail People’s Choice Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and the University of Sydney People’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. 

Myles McGuire is a Brisbane-based writer. In 2024 he won the Richell Prize, received the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award and was a winner of the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition. He teaches creative writing at QUT and is the programs and development manager at Brisbane Writers Festival. 

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She has written for publications including Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Books+Publishing. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022, and she’s been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.