Griffith Review 63: Writing the Country

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How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko wrote of 'earthspeaking, talking about this place, my home?. All these years later, the need to hear all sorts of earthspeak has perhaps never been more urgent. Co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Ashley Hay, Griffith Review 63- Writing the Country features contributions from writers including Tony Birch, Kim Mahood, Jane Gleeson-White and Charles Massy. This edition of Griffith Review is supported by The Nature Conservancy.How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko wrote of 'earthspeaking, talking about this place, my home?. All these years later, the need to hear all sorts of earthspeak has perhaps never been more urgent. Co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Ashley Hay, Griffith Review 63- Writing the Country features contributions from writers including Tony Birch, Kim Mahood, Jane Gleeson-White and Charles Massy. This edition of Griffith Review is supported by The Nature Conservancy.
Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review, the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly journal.Ashley Hay is a former literary editor of the Bulletin and a longstanding contributor to Griffith Review. She is a prize-winning author who has published three novels and four books of narrative non-fiction. Her work has won several awards, including the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People?s Choice Award in the 2014 NSW Premier?s Literary Awards. She has also been longlisted for the Miles Franklin award and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2014, she edited the anthology Best Australian Science Writing.