A QUARTERLY OF NEW WRITING & IDEAS STAKEHOLDER REPORT 2014 MAKING AN IMPACT public domain. It is a problematic term, you know About Griffith it when you see it, but it is hard to define – more than numbers, it goes to the heart of how ideas can Griffith REVIEW began its second decade this year REVIEW take hold and change the way we make sense of the with a determination to look out, to extend its world. reach and readership and build on the achievements Since 2003, Griffith REVIEW has been the of the past. The impact of focusing on ideas, of extending public leading literary magazine in Australia with an discussion beyond the predictable, of introducing uncanny ability to anticipate emerging trends. Winning two Walkley Awards at the end of 2013 new voices to the public domain, of helping to was a great kickstart for this, as well as a remarkable Griffith REVIEW is a high quality, agenda- provide a sense of understanding and belonging tribute for this small operation – a testament to setting quarterly publication, delivering insight is harder to measure, but no less important. We the talent of our contributors and their desire to into the issues that matter most in a timely, explored this in Cultural Solutions and it continues to produce the best possible writing about complex authoritative and engaging fashion. resonate. subjects, and to the editorial team. Importantly it gave us the confidence to be more ambitious. At a time when there is so much noisy competition Each themed collection presents fresh for attention Griffith REVIEW is playing a long insights and analysis of the day’s big issues We started the year with a stunning edition on New game – with writing that will stand the test of time, from pre-eminent Australian and international Zealand, Pacific Highways, which was received with about ideas and issues that matter. This year the writers. glowing attention at home and across the Tasman. A resounding echo of essays first published in these few months later we began the search for writers Its unique model features a mix of essays, pages has attracted widespread attention. for our most ambitious edition to date, New Asia, memoir, reportage, short fiction, poetry and which will be published in July 2015 and feature the Producing a quality quarterly with the space for visual essays by emerging and established best young writers from the Asia Pacific. considered reflection on the most pressing issues authors who tease out the complexity of of the age demands a lot from contributors and This report documents many of the achievements current events. staff and depends on the support of readers and this year – the range and quality of the writing, subscribers. When we get this right the impact Griffith REVIEW also plays an important the public events, the media mentions and social endures. We look forward to continuing this journey role in supporting new and emerging writers media hits. It also documents some of the outputs; with you. the books commissioned and published as a result alongside established authors, connecting them to a significant national audience of first publication in these pages, the awards Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA, Editor and enriching public life. Scores of writers shortlisted and won, the millions of dollars of value Professor Martin Betts, Publisher of media mentions, the large numbers of people Susan Hornbeck, Associate Publisher have had their first professional publication who have attended events, the levels of support. John Tague, Editorial Manager in Griffith REVIEW, many of whom have These numbers are impressive and a useful proxy Jerath Head, Editorial Assistant consequently secured publishing contracts, measurement of the impact of Griffith REVIEW. Jane Hunterland, Business Administration scholarships and awards. Impact is one of the buzzwords that crept onto the agenda this year. Like most fashionable terms it is probably destined to have a short intense life in the 2014 IN REVIEW Copyright Agency, National Library of Queensland Government Australia, the Wheeler Centre, State Library 4 147 editions authors • Editions in 2014 included 43: Pacific Highways, of Queensland, writers centres, independent 44: Cultural Solutions, 45: The Way We Work and bookshops and more. 46: Forgotten Stories – The Novella Project II. • University of Tasmania purchased 5,800 copies • Griffith REVIEW published 147 authors – the of 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point? to give to most in any one year. each first year student. 4 10 • The Griffith REVIEW Annual Lecture was ebooks author • Each edition attracted significant attention from interviews quality print and broadcast media. delivered by Dr Chris Sarra.

• The new Griffith REVIEW website was launched • Griffith REVIEW ran its first webinar with in April. It allows readers to select, resize, renowned writer and co-editor of highlight and share content on any tablet or Pacific Highways, Lloyd Jones. 25 12 digital device. online books published • Griffith REVIEW continues to be the only essays from GR • New digital products were developed and Australian publication featured in the New York essays launched, including free ebooks, e-singles, Review of Books’ Best from University Presses exclusive online essays, an online author and is featured prominently among international interview series and interactive, multimedia literary journals at Shakespeare & Co bookshop 71 46 essays. in Paris. reviews & extracts articles • In 2014 Griffith REVIEW continued to increase income from grants, sponsorship, commercilisation and donations, exceeding the annual target by 53 per cent. 37 41 • Significant new partnerships included ‘Griffith REVIEW enjoys a much-deserved radio & TV public collaborations with the New Zealand Book reputation as one of the best literary journals in interviews events Council, Victoria University, the New Zealand Australia. Its contribution to conversations and High Commission, Creating Australia and informed debate on a wide range of topical issues Booktopia. has been outstanding.’ Hon Ian Walker MP, 5 13 • Ongoing partnerships include media Australia- event event Minister for Science, Information Technology, wide, Griffith University, Text Publishing, continents cities Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, Innovation and the Arts IN THE MEDIA ABC TV Big Ideas broadcast two public events Social media across all its television stations. Other ABC The media is in steady decline in Australia, television included interviews on prestigious shows Griffith REVIEW’s social media audience particularly in regard to books and ideas. Book The Drum and News Weekend Breakfast. continues to expand. Social media sharing review pages are now widely syndicated, significantly Radio continued to be very supportive of Griffith options have now been integrated into the reducing the number of books reviewed each week. REVIEW with interviews on national shows, website. However, in 2014 Griffith REVIEW almost doubled including a one-hour panel discussion on ABC Radio The Griffith REVIEW e-newsletter has the number of extracts that ran in 2012 and Nightlife; interviews on ABC RN Drive, Saturday Extra, become a key communication tool. attracted coverage from high circulation, high quality Saturday Mornings, Sunday Extra, Books + Arts Daily, print and broadcast media. The Media Report, Life Matters, Big Ideas; interviews E-NEWSLETTER on local ABC radio stations including 612 ABC Media circulation figures and ASR dollar amounts Total e-subscribers: 4,632 attracted by Griffith REVIEW in 2014 are only Brisbane and 666 ABC Canberra; and on popular (growth of 35.8%) partially available through Media Portal. Using community stations including Radio 3RRR and the available figures, for editions 44 and 45 Radio 4ZZZ. Total opens: 96,117 Highest open rate: 37.2% Griffith REVIEW generated a minimum ASR of Reviews and articles appeared in a variety of $2,343,614 and reached a minimum media audience publications, including Weekend Australian, (industry avg 16.5%) of 3,994,040. Please note these figures only The Guardian, Sun-Herald, Australian Financial Review, Total clicks: 7,216 incorporate about half of media, so they would be Sunday Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Examiner, much higher in reality. Canberra Times, Herald Sun, Walkley Magazine, the TWITTER Extracts appeared in high circulation print and Australian, Brisbane News, ArtsHub and Hoopla.com. Twitter followers total: 4,913 online media including Good Weekend Magazine, The Griffith REVIEW 43: Pacific Highways was also covered Increase since 2013: 1,239 Australian, Sunday Life Magazine, Daily Life, Australian widely by New Zealand media including Dominion Financial Review, Canberra Times, QWeekend Magazine, Post, New Zealand Herald, Your Weekend Magazine, FACEBOOK The Age, Crikey.com, ABC’s The Drum, the Wheeler New Zealand Listener, The Southland Times, Stuff. Facebook fans total: 2,084 Centre, Women’s Agenda, ArtsHub Australia, Inside co.nz, Taranaki Daily News, The Read, Beattie’s Book Increase since 2013: 416 Story, Newcastle Herald, Online Opinion and Blog, Words of the Day, featured.co.nz, NZ Lit 101, Croakey.com. NZ Booklovers, KiwiFlora Reads, Scoop NZ, Radio Griffith REVIEW consolidated its partnership LIVE, Newstalk ZB, Plains FM. The edition was with The Conversation, which published a series of also extracted in NZ media including New Zealand essays about New Zealand to coincide with Pacific Listener and Your Weekend Magazine. 71 46 37 Highways as well as extracts from other editions. reviews & extracts radio & TV articles interviews PUBLIC DISCUSSION Solutions, and previewed the Griffith REVIEW On the World Stage Annual Lecture.

Sellout events were held in 2014 across thirteen Griffith REVIEW formed a new partnership A high profile launch was held in New cities and five continents. with The Conversation’s discussion series, The Zealand, with Pacific Highways launched by the Chair of the Arts Council New Zealand, Pacific Highways was launched at a large public event Conversation Club. Two events were held in with an opening speech by the Chair of the at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne in partnership Brisbane around The Way We Work edition. New Zealand Book Council at the National with Deakin University. More than 200 people The Way We Work was also featured at the Library in Auckland. attended, including the New Zealand Consul- Melbourne Writers Festival in a vibrant panel General Melbourne and the Chair of the New discussion hosted by George Megalogenis. Pacific Highways was also featured at New Zealand Book Council. Zealand Writers Week in Wellington. The NZ High Commission also flew two Approximately 120 people came to hear The launch was followed by an ‘in-conversation’ contributors from Pacific Highways to MWF for a readings by six of the contributors to event with Lloyd Jones and Julianne Schultz at panel about the edition. the edition. the National Library of Australia, Canberra, that approximately 100 people attended; and a panel Brisbane Writers Festival featured an ambitious Pacific Highways, Once Upon a Time in Oz and event at Adelaide Writers’ Week attended by nearly Cultural Solutions networking event, and a terrific Tasmania – The Tipping Point? were featured 400 people and featuring Booker Prize-winner discussion around The Way We Work. at the inaugural Australia and New Zealand , Julianne Schultz, Lloyd Jones and Festival of Literature and Arts in London Forgotten Stories – The Novella Project II was launched Gregory O’Brien. where Griffith REVIEW was a festival partner. in Melbourne at a Wheeler Centre panel event. Cultural Solutions was launched with an in- This was followed by a launch of Pacific The event series for 2014 culminated in a very conversation between Julianne Schultz and Robyn Highways hosted by the NZ Embassy in successful event at Avid Reader featuring micro- Archer at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The event was Berlin that was attended by about 50 leading readings from contributors across all four issues and broadcast on ABC TV Big Ideas. literary and academic figures. the inaugural Books & Writing Xmas Luau at the More than 200 people attended a conversation Brisbane Powerhouse that brought together the full New Asia (August 2015) was launched at the about the edition at The Wheeler Centre in spectrum of the industry in Queensland. APWT’s Bridging Cultures Conference in Melbourne, and several hundred attended a panel Singapore, and participants were invited to event about the edition at the Sydney Writers submit. Festival. Another high profile event was held at the Lismore Town Hall.

The Way We Work was previewed at the well- 41 5 13 public event event attended Byron Bay Writers Festival. The festival events continents cities also included panels on Pacific Highways and Cultural ANNUAL LECTURE 2014 KEYNOTES Webinar Griffith REVIEW’s second Annual Lecture was Julianne Schultz, Editor of Griffith REVIEW, delivered Griffith REVIEW hosted its first webinar/ delivered by Dr Chris Sarra at the State Library of two major keynotes in 2014. masterclass in conjunction with Arts Queensland on the topic of Indigenous leadership. May 2014 Queensland, featuring Lloyd Jones. Twenty The event was chaired by Paul Barclay. people attended the live masterclass, with Living in the Permanent Present: another 80 attending via webinar from across The event was sold out and was broadcast on ABC Forgetting to Remember Australia. TV Big Ideas and ABC Radio National Big Ideas. An National Conference of Australian Museums extract ran in the Australian. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Feedback was fabulous, with 93 per cent Dr Sarra received a great deal of positive feedback: Launceston, Tasmania of participants rated the event as excellent or good. Regional participants said they September 2014 ‘The clarity of this leadership speech makes it appreciated access to a world class writer. the best and most important you have written. I The Big Picture: Lives, Landscapes, believe you have the balance right, especially in not Homelands in Australian and Chinese Art ‘I enjoyed my time in Brisbane immensely and naming obvious targets and yet fully articulating 2014 FASIC Australian Studies Conference this was a unique opportunity for me. I am very a detailed analysis of leadership styles, impacts Renmin University, China thankful to both Griffith REVIEW and QWC for and alternatives… Your insights on identity work making it possible for me to attend this event.’ splendidly here in this lecture… It’s a deeply thoughtful, powerful evocation of a different ‘This way of further integrating Griffith REVIEW leadership that could truly carry people to a into the writing community is nothing short different sense of nationhood, one in which the of brilliant. The delivery of such an exercise Aboriginal voice would sing to all of our hearts, and further consolidates Griffith Review’s position as we would all hear the country calling.’ Australia’s leading literary magazine.’ Jeff McMullen, journalist PACIFIC HIGHWAYS PACIFIC HIGHWAYS Editors Edited by Julianne Schultz and Lloyd Jones Julianne Schultz Edition 43, February 2014 Lloyd Jones Digital publishing Contributors • A free bonus ebook, Pacific Highways Volume 2, featuring eight exclusive essays, stories Tanveer Ahmed • Hinemona Baker and poems. Laurie Bauer • Bernard Beckett Sally Blundell • William Brandt • Six exclusive online essays. Steve Braunias • James Brown • Seven author interviews. About the edition Rachel Buchanan • David Burton • The Conversation published a series of New Glenn Busch • Kate Camp Griffith REVIEW 43: Pacific Highways, edited by Zealand essays. Hamish Clayton • Geoff Cochrane acclaimed New Zealand author Lloyd Jones and Kate De Goldi • Cliff Fell In the media Julianne Schultz, examines the shifting tides in New Bruce Foster • Patricia Grace • The New Zealand High Commission noticed an Zealand through a heady mix of essay, memoir, Dinah Hawken • Alan Hunt uptick in media discussions about New Zealand fiction and poetry by some of New Zealand’s most Lynn Jenner • Lynne McDonald in Australia following the publication of exciting and innovative writers. Pacific Highways Finlay MacDonald • Bill Manhire Pacific Highways. explores New Zealand’s position as a hub between Peter Mares • the Pacific, Tasman and Southern oceans, and Anne Noble • Gregory O’Brien • Extracts ran in Crikey, The Conversation, ABC examines the exchange of people and culture, points Roberto Onell • Rod Oram The Drum, New Zealand Listener, Your Weekend of resistance and overlap. Magazine, Women’s Agenda. Vincent O’Sullivan • Emily Perkins Pacific Highways, published with support from the Chris Price • Rebecca Priestlyey • Interviews on 612 ABC Brisbane, ABC Radio New Zealand Book Council and Creative New Harry Ricketts • John Saker National, ABC Radio Australia, 3RRR, 666 ABC Zealand, is a profound overview of a complex Pacific CK Stead • Peter Swain Canberra, Radio Live, Newstalk ZB Wellington, nation with a polyphony of voices. It will challenge Leilani Tamu • Paul Thomas Plains FM. what you thought you knew, and inspire you to Carrie Tiffany • Brian Turner • Reviews in Dominion Post, the Southland Times, think again. Matt Vance • Stuff.co.nz, Beattie’s Book Blog, Canberra Times, NZ Lydia Wevers • Damien Wilkins Herald, Herald Sun, Your Weekend Magazine, Indaily, ‘This collection successfully takes the pulse of a • Kate Woods NZ Listener, Scoop NZ and many more. nuanced and exciting country whose literary talent Ross Woods • Ashleigh Young is given ample space to grow, thanks to the Griffith Ya-Wen Ho REVIEW.’ NZ Booklovers CULTURAL CULTURAL SOLUTIONS Editor SOLUTIONS Julianne Schultz Edited by Julianne Schultz Edition 44, May 2014 Contributors Paula Abood • Rod Ainsworth Digital publishing Robyn Archer • Chris Armstrong • A free bonus ebook, Notes from the Front, Betty Birskys • Tim Bishop featuring case studies from cultural workers. Natasha Cica • Craig Cliff • Nine exclusive online essays. Liam Davison • Mary Delahunty • Three author interviews. About the edition Kevin Densley • Pippa Dickson Demet Divaroren • Sarah Emery Griffith REVIEW 44: Cultural Solutions explores new Kieran Finnane • Graeme Gibson In the media ways Australians are working together and solving Kim V Goldsmith • Trevor Graham • Extracts appeared in prestigious publications social problems that governments and other Frances Guo • Anna Haebich and online sites including Good Weekend organisations have struggled to work out. Jim Hearn • Alysha Hermann Magazine, the Age, Newcastle Herald, The Published with the support of Creating Australia, Phil Heuzenroeder • Cathy Hunt Conversation and ArtsHub. Cultural Solutions puts flesh on the bones of the Pilar Kasat • Alex Kelly • Features and reviews appeared in the Australian, cultural richness around us and prove its success in Rebecca Lister • Meme McDonald Guardian, Courier-Mail, Brisbane News, Western providing new fixes for old problems. Victor Marsh • Lucy Mayes Herald and Northern Rivers Echo. Jim Morrison • Caitlin Newton-Broad Kristina Olsson • Geoff Page ‘With the authority of the Board of Creating • Radio included four ABC Radio National Bruce Petty • Neal Price Australia, I am writing to thank you for your interviews as well as interviews on 3RRR, 612 Alice Pung • Scott Rankin engagement with Creating Australia to produce the ABC Brisbane, 4ZZZ, ABC South West WA, Raphaella Rosella • Kate Ryan most recent edition of the Griffith REVIEW. ABC North Coast NSW and more. Vivienne Skinner • Luke Slattery We are delighted with the powerful tool we now Kirra Smith • Rosanna Stevens • ABC TV Big Ideas broadcast a public event have to promote the work of the community arts Sian Supski • Leigh Tabrett held at the Brisbane Powerhouse across all its and cultural development sector. It will serve us well Liz Thompson • Sandy Toussaint television stations. over the next few years to ensure that we engage Maria Tumarkin • Susan Varga effectively with government and with the corporate Kate Veitch • Sue-Anne Wallace and philanthropic sectors.’ Dr Sue-Anne Wallace, Marcus Westbury Executive Chair, Creating Australia THE WAY WE WORK THE WAY WE WORK Editor Edited by Julianne Schultz Julianne Schultz Edition 45, August 2014

Digital publishing Contributors • A free bonus ebook, When We Were Kings, is Tanveer Ahmed • Andrew Belk a collection of journalism and stories about Gillian Bouras • Phil Brown journalism (~500 downloads). Rachel Buchanan • Melanie Cheng Justin Clemens • Gregory Day • Ten exclusive online essays and stories. Darryl Dymock • Helen Elliott • Josephine Rowe and Ashley Hay’s essays About the edition Rachel Flynn • Frances Guo published as e-singles. Griffith REVIEW 45: The Way We Work explores the Gideon Haigh • Ashley Hay extraordinary structural changes in work caused Pat Hoffie • Gerhard Hoffstaedter In the media by technology, globalisation, economic theory, the Rebecca Huntley • Julie James Bailey • Television interviews included prestigious ABC collapse of the unions and an ageing population. Demetri Kakmi • Hayley Katzen shows The Drum and News Weekend Breakfast. Kathryn Knight • Annee Lawrence • Extracts appeared in high circulation print media Featuring essays from Ashley Hay, Gideon Haigh, Virginia Lloyd • Kristi Mansfield including the Australian, Good Weekend Magazine, Mandy Sayer, Rebecca Huntley, Peter Mares, Peter Mares • Lucy Mayes Sunday Life Magazine and QWeekend Magazine; Josephine Rowe and more, The Way We Work asks: Craig McGregor •Kate McMurray influential online publications including The How does work shape our values, our citizens, Adam Nanst • Paddy O’Reilly Conversation, SMH online, Women’s Agenda, Inside cultures and communities? As our work changes, David Peetz • Duncan Richardson Story, Online Opinion and Croakey.com. how will it change us? How does the blurring Frank Robson • Josephine Rowe of work and leisure through ‘access anywhere’ • Radio included two interviews on ABC Radio Mandy Sayer • Laura Jan Shore technology affect our attitudes to work? How National, interviews on ABC regional radio, and Jenny Sinclair • Liz Temple are older Australians going to find consistent and a one hour panel discussion on ABC Gijs Verbossen • Sonya Voumard flexible work (as the government wants them to Radio Nightlife. John Watson • Ellzabeth Woods do) when age discrimination is rife? Will flexible • The edition was reviewed across major papers work help decrease the gender gap? including Sun Herald, Sunday Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Sunday Examiner and popular websites including Hoopla.com and ArtsHub also reviewed the edition. FORGOTTEN STORIES THE NOVELLA PROJECT II Edited by Julianne Schultz and Sally Breen FORGOTTEN STORIES Edition 46, November 2014 THE NOVELLA PROJECT II Editors Julianne Schultz and Sally Breen Digital publishing with Aviva Tuffield • Each of the novellas are published as e-singles.

Contributors In the media Michael Cook (picture essay) • The media for Forgotten Stories is still coming in. About the edition Masako Fukui • To date there have been interviews on 666 ABC Griffith REVIEW 46: Forgotten Stories – The Novella Emma Hardman Canberra, ABC Radio National Sunday Extra, Project II delves into the ‘black hole, full of stowed Radio 3RRR and Radio 4ZZZ. secrets’ to find new characters and conflicts, Cate Kennedy • Reviews and listings have run in Tasmanian Times, uncovering defining moments and complex John Kinsella PS News and ABC Online. relationships between people and places. Megan McGrath

The results are surprising and sometimes confronting, moving and provocative.

These five novellas are as diverse as their locations: on goldfields on both sides of the continent, on ‘History’s not a blank white room, I thought, islands and at sea, in cities and small towns. The waiting for you to install something cryptic. characters leap off the page, illuminate the past and It’s a black hole, full of stowed secrets.’ inform the present. Cate Kennedy

Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, this compelling collection of new fiction by some of Australia’s best writers will linger well beyond the last page. CONTRIBUTOR Books published David Walsh, the creator of MONA, wrote a Virginia Peters has published a book based on her memoir piece, ‘Reasons to be cheerful’ for Griffith ACHIEVEMENTS memoir piece ‘My Mother and Murder’ published in REVIEW 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point? In a recent Griffith REVIEW 35: Surviving. The book is Have You interview he said: ‘I wrote an essay for Griffith Awards Seen Simone? The story of an unsolved murder (Black REVIEW and within two weeks of Griffith REVIEW Kris Olsson Kibble Literary Award winner Inc., July 2014). coming out I got approached by eight publishers… NSW Prem’s Lit Awards winner I didn’t like any of them.’ He went to Pan Macmillan BBC correspondent Nick Bryant expanded on Stella Prize shortlist with a proposal resulting in A Bone of Fact (Pan his essay ‘Cultural Creep’ published in Griffith Macmillan, 2014). Ashley Hay NSW Prem’s Lit Awards winner REVIEW 36: What is Australia For? to form the basis Colin Roderick Award winner of his acclaimed book, The Rise and Fall of Australia Helena Pastor’s manuscript about the Iron Man Miles Franklin Longlist (Random House, July 2014). Welders will be published by UQP in 2015. An Kibble Literary Award shortlist extract, ‘Joining the Pack’, was published in Griffith Sophie Cunningham expanded on her essay REVIEW 28: Still the Lucky Country?. Gideon Haigh NSW Prem’s Lit Awards shortlist ‘Disappeared’ published in Griffith REVIEW 35: Surviving in her book Warning: The story of Cyclone M Merrilees NSW Prem’s Lit Awards shortlist Tracy (Text, August 2014). Dobbie Literary Award shortlist Sam Vincent’s essay ‘Harpooned’, from Griffith M Lucashenko Vic Prem’s Lit Awards winner REVIEW 37: Small World, has resulted in a book, Blood Miles Franklin longlist & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars Kibble Literary Award shortlist (Black Inc., 2014). IMPAC Dublin 2015 longlist Favel Parrett’s new novel When the Night Comes, is Cory Taylor Miles Franklin longlist published by Hachette. Her story ‘Across the Bass Fiona Paisley Margarey Medal for Biography Strait’ that informed this work was published in Griffith REVIEW 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point? Margo Lanagan Barbara Jefferis Award winner Noel Pearson’s Quarterly Essay 55: A Rightful Place Jo Chandler Bragg UNSW Press Prize for builds the argument and refers extensively to the Science Writing winner essay we wrote for Griffith REVIEW 16: Unintended Brian Casto 2014 Patrick White Literary Consequences. Award Frank Moorhouse’s series of essay on ASIO has culminated in a book, Australia Under Surveillance (Random House, 2014). CONTRIBUTOR Contributors say... Awards and ACHIEVEMENTS ‘The process of writing the essay helped me to Recognition for 2014 frame my thoughts about whether/when the two should be kept separate… I can’t thank you enough Essays Other Achievements for the opportunity to have the piece published; the publication itself created a space for the next step Peter Mares’ ‘Refuge without work’ from The Way Alison Wong, a contributor to Pacific Highways, has to happen.’ Miriam Zolin We Work was shorlisted for the Human Rights been selected to take part in a writers’ exchange Award, Print and Online. with China to work on a memoir inspired by her ‘You are better than having the Force with me!! My Pacific Highways essay. She will be the first New undying thanks – how to ever repay you?’ Clare Corbett’s story ‘Snake in the grass’ from Zealand writer to join the prestigious Shanghai Leah Kaminsky Griffith REVIEW 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz was International Writers’ Program. About eight writers selected for Best Australian Stories 2014. Griffith REVIEW ‘has been a wonderful vehicle for from all over the world are selected each year. me and a lot of other writers and has provided a Adam Narnst’s story ‘Blue people’ from Griffith A pointer towards Pauline Nguyen’s essay ‘Born in place for important conversations that wasn’t there REVIEW 45: The Way We Work was seleted for Best Vietnam, made in Australia’ (edition 27) and the before. Your work takes on a certain amount of Australian Stories 2014. website link to her essay will be included in an gravitas when it appears in Griffith REVIEW. I have Tom Griffiths’ essay ‘Weather and mind games’ educational textbook for school students titled been a subscriber to The New Yorker for 15 years and from Griffith REVIEW 41: Now We Are Ten was Pearson History 10 NSW Student Book, with an Griffith REVIEW has a similar quality of longform selected for The Best Australian Science Writing estimated print run of 50,000. work.’ Melissa Lucashenko in the Courier-Mail 2014 (NewSouth).

Contributor Miriam Zolin’s essay ‘The dog of fiction ‘Some journals tend to be more literary but Griffith Leah Kaminsky’s essay ‘Promise or peril’ from and the wolf of memory’ (34: The Annual Fiction REVIEW’s success lies in also tackling issues.’ Griffith REVIEW 41: Now We Are Ten was selected Edition 2011) has become a catalyst for a major Robyn Archer in the Courier-Mail for The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 work that weaves together the fiction and the ‘Griffith REVIEW’s reach always surprises me.’ (NewSouth). memory to which the essay refers. Leigh Tabrett Marion Halligan’s story ‘A castle in Toorak’ from Nic Low’s essay ‘Ear to the Ground’, from Griffith Griffith REVIEW 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz has REVIEW 45: Surviving, will be published in Tell been selected for a year’s Best Australian Fantasy You What: Great NZ Nonfiction 2014(Auckland and Horror anthology. University Press, October 2014).

Leah Kaminsky accepted her third book offer in three months, this time for her novel The Waiting 147 12 Room which will be published by Vintage. authors books published from GR essays PRAISE ‘There is something here for everyone, a lot of read, to understand and enjoy…it is great to see it is easy to read, to understand and enjoy…it is the continued respect being given to New Zealand Pacific Highways great to see the continued respect being given to writers and artists from outside our borders.’ New Zealand writers and artists from outside our KiwiFloraReads ‘Don’t miss this…it is a truly superb collection borders.’ We Love Books that wonderfully illustrates the hugely varied talent Griffith REVIEW’sPacific Highways ‘is like a sampler of NZ writers. AND in Australia’s leading literary ‘I thoroughly enjoyed the collection, enjoyed reading box of chocolates, you get a taste of all sorts, journal! Every serious reader/book lover should so much creative non-fiction. I found it inspiring; I including people and works you might otherwise own a copy and all libraries should have multiple was driven to write poetry about the Pacific. Buy overlook, and the pieces are long/short enough to copies. It is an absolute treasure.’ Beattie’s Blog the book.’ NZ Lit 101 intrigue and make you go looking for more by the authors you love.’ UBS Review of Books ‘Geologically, New Zealand and Australia are ‘The collection gives Australian readers an in-depth edging apart. The same sometimes seems to be look at New Zealand, as well as New Zealand ‘The writing in this edition only gets better the happening in literature; it can be easier for a New readers a thoughtful reflection on their changing further you read, and the more I read, the more Zealand writer to get published on the other side national identity…this collection challenges and I wanted to know. Pacific Highways strips New of the world than on the other side of the Tasman. informs through the high quality of writing and Zealand of its simple stereotypes and uncovers Which makes it both admirable and generous of passion of its contributors. The varying lengths of this rich, modern country and culture for the the prestigious Brisbane-based Griffith REVIEW to pieces and the loose structure of the collection multicultural nation it really is.’ lip magazine devote its latest quarterly issue to our authors… give the writers space to develop their ideas in way ‘We, as New Zealanders, accept that Australians It’s an excellent album of the ways we are, love, that a newspaper or magazine article isn’t able to don’t usually cut us the slack we might deserve. deny, lament. It’s also a marker in CIR (Closer accommodate. The results are often very engaging… Well, the Brisbane-based Griffith REVIEW, a Intellectual Relationships). Buy several copies as gifts, This collection successfully takes the pulse of a quarterly journal of essays, poetry, memoirs, especially for New Zealanders resident in Australia.’ nuanced and exciting country whose literary talent fiction and imagery, is a high-profile exception… New Zealand Herald is given ample space to grow, thanks to the Griffith Pacific Highways offers more than just snapshots. REVIEW.’ NZ Booklovers ‘It’s a fascinating anthology, for all Antipodeans.’ Collectively, it’s an insight into where we’ve come Martin Shaw, Readings ‘Embraced are the austere, the erudite, the slightly from, what we’re doing and who’s been joining us sedate, the shimmering, the transient and then for the ride… To those of us who don’t call New ‘Pacific Highways is, indeed, a refreshing and there are the smart renditions about very little. The Zealand home, Pacific Highways provides a collective intelligent rebuff of the many tired and tiresome extensive range, however, is strikingly realised!’ snapshot of what home really is.’ Scoop NZ clichés that abound – in Australia, especially – about PS News the Land of the Long White Cloud… It’s an exciting and inspiring collection of writing that takes a fresh ‘For a young country with a relatively small look at the complexity of the Kiwi culture and population the number and variety of high calibre identity.’ InDaily contributors to this edition is fantastic… There is something here for everyone, a lot of it is easy to PRAISE nascent pursuit of resources and political power. As Government to be the most efficient, modern and in all of its collections, the latest Griffith REVIEW service-oriented government in Australia. To deliver Cultural Solutions provides readers with the tools to go forth into the on this, we need to continually look to improve world armed with an increased understanding of the way we work and the services we deliver ‘For community-art deniers, an essay by [Scott] realities so disparate from their own and what they to Queensland. No doubt this edition will be a Rankin in the latest Griffith REVIEW should be need to do to bridge the inordinate gaps that still thought-provoking read.’ Kate Davies, Executive compulsory reading.’ The Australian prevail.’ ArtsHub Officer, Office of the Premier of Queensland Cultural Solutions ‘features the usual impressive list The Way We Work provides ‘an indepth insight into ‘This edition of Griffith REVIEWclearly addresses of contributors, with iconic performer and festival how work shapes our cultures, values, citizens and many issues affecting the Australian workforce director Robyn Archer leading the pack.’ Courier-Mail communities… Featured stories from the “coalface in the 21st century and provides valuable insight ‘Culture is recognised as one of the four pillars of work” includes contributors…who describe old- into current issues impacting on Australia’s work of a successful society – along with political, style and non-traditional jobs with fevour, panache environment.’ John-Paul Langbroek MP, economic and social institutions. These are and perceptiveness.’ PS News Minister for Education, Training and Employment, admirably showcased in this edition, putting “flesh Queensland Government ‘A stimulating look at the modern workplace and its on the bones of the cultural richness around us, impact on our lives.’ Patheos ‘Griffith University is to be commended for the and its capacity to provide solutions to intractable insights and analysis contained within this report. problems”.’ PS News ‘The articles in the REVIEW touch on many themes The Australian Government recognises the value of in which I take an interest as part of my broader such analysis in assisting to identify opportunities portfolio responsibilities, including the important The Way We Work for growth and reform, as we work to ensure issues of workplace flexibility; changes in the nature Australia’s future economic prosperity by achieving ‘The Griffith REVIEW devotes this edition to all of work and how people adapt to such changes; our outcomes in the priority of employment, manner of modern work practices, with topics the impact of new technology in the workplace; productivity and competitiveness. 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