No Place Like Home at Adelaide Writers Week
There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be somewhere we long to return to or can’t wait to escape. Join Griffith Review 87 contributors Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills as they explore the myriad material consequences…
Read MoreLeaps of Faith at Adelaide Writers Week
Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in nature, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle or a reason for living. Join Griffith Review 86 contributors Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien as they explore what faith can tell us about our desires, our values and ourselves, in conversation…
Read MoreNo Place Like Home at Avid Reader
Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 87 contributors Shauna Bostock and Tony Matthews as they explore the myths and promises of home, from the politics of dispossession to the complexities of Australia’s property problem – plus enjoy a poetry reading from fellow edition contributor Cheryl Leavy. Shauna Bostock is Indigenous Australian Research Editor in…
Read MoreLeaps of Faith at Avid Reader
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…
Read MoreStatus Anxiety at Canberra Writers Festival
Status affords some of us power and wealth and others empty promises. But why does status so often go unnoticed? How does it influence everything from social inequality to personal relationships? And what changing forces have come to bear on the high or low status we have ascribed ourselves and others over the centuries? Lucia…
Read MoreStatus Anxiety at Byron Writers Festival
Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 85 contributors Shahar Hameiri and Haruko Koga to explore why we’re so obsessed with status. They’ll investigate the rise of the far right, the end of mass politics and the radioactive fallout from Japan’s fraught relationship with nuclear power. Shahar Hameiri is Professor of International Politics and Australian…
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Carody Culver in conversation with Shahar Hameiri and Pascalle Burton, with a poetry reading from Ella Jeffery. Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 85 contributors Shahar Hameiri, Pascalle Burton and Ella Jeffery to explore why we’re so obsessed with status. They’ll investigate the rise of the far right and the fall of mass politics…
Read MorePast Perfect at Brisbane Writers Festival
It’s hardly a new observation to say that everything old is new again. But what does our obsession with nostalgia say about our relationship with the past, our understanding of the present and our prospects for the future? These three extraordinary writers discuss their contributions to a nostalgia-themed edition of Griffith Review with the journal’s editor, Carody…
Read MoreAttachment Styles at Brisbane Writers Festival
Join three brilliant authors as they unpick the threads of our complex emotional bonds. From therapy speak and method acting to the mysteries that live within our bodies, these writers’ spellbinding contributions to the latest edition of Griffith Review reveal the pleasures, pitfalls and peculiarities of our messy human relations. Ceridwen Dovey writes fiction (Only the Animals; Mothertongues; Blood…
Read MoreAttachment Styles at Sydney Writers Festival
Relationships are complicated – but would we want them any other way? Beloved storytellers Richard Glover and Debra Oswald and acclaimed psychologist and author Ahona Guha talk love, labels and psychobabble with Griffith Review Editor Carody Culver. They’ll be exploring their contributions to the journal’s latest edition, Attachment Styles, which goes far beyond the family tree to explore…
Read MoreAnimal Magic at Sydney Writers Festival
Take a walk on the wild side with award-winning writers Chris Flynn and Laura Jean McKay as they discuss their contributions to Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic with journal editor Carody Culver. From the big business of digging up dinosaur bones to the mysteries that lie in wait beneath the waves, this edition of Griffith Review lets the cat…
Read MorePast Perfect at Avid Reader
Join Editor Carody Culver to explore the perils and possibilities of nostalgia with Griffith Review 83 contributors Sharlene Allsopp, Amber Gwynne, Myles McGuire and Melanie Myers. They’ll talk time travel, the Roald Dahl revision controversy, psychedelic criticism, and the seven stages of loving – and hating – Scarlett O’Hara. About Past Perfect The past, famously,…
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