Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 86 contributors Sita Walker and Tom Doig to discuss doomsday preppers, post-faith scepticism, and fear of the future – plus enjoy readings from fellow edition contributors Amber Gwynne, Melanie Myers and Phil Brown. 

Sita Walker is a high school literature teacher, freelance writer and award-winning memoirist whose first book, The God of No Good (Ultimo Press), 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. 

Tom Doig is a non-fiction author and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Queensland. He is working on a book about survivalist and prepper subcultures around the world. 

Amber Gwynne is a researcher, writer and editor based in Meanjin/Brisbane. She is a senior officer in the public service, managing editor of the Journal of Australian Studies and a lecturer in writing at the University of Queensland. 

Melanie Myers won the Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award for an Emerging Writer in 2018. Her winning manuscript was published as Meet Me at Lennon’s (UQP), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance and The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Arena Magazine, TEXT and Hecate, among many others. 

Phil Brown Phil Brown is editor of InReview, Qld, an independent arts outlet. He is the author of two books of poetry – Plastic Parables (Metro Community Press 1991 and An Accident in the Evening (Interactive Press 2001). His most recent book is The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood published by Transit Lounge in 2019. He has been covering the arts in Australia in the mainstream media for nearly four decades and was for some years Arts Editor for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane

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. 

^{Image: Michael Zavros, The Swan 2015, oil on board, courtesy of the artist.}