Remaking the Balance
Sophie Cunningham + Chris Flynn + Nardi Simpson + Ashley Hay
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library
L019
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance contributors Chris Flynn, Sophie Cunningham and Nardi Simpson join GR editor Ashley Hay to talk rupture and resources: animal, vegetable, mineral, and more. What happens when a penguin’s speech transcends anthropomorphism; when our capacities for hope are exercised like muscles; when trade is transformed into a generous exchange? How might these ideas–and more–change what we do with what we have?
#Artists
Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham is the author of six books. She is a former publisher and editor and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to literature.
Chris Flynn
Chris Flynn is the author of Mammoth (UQP 2020), The Glass Kingdom and A Tiger in Eden, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Age, The Australian, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, Smith Journal, The Big Issue, Monster Children, McSweeney’s and many other publications. He has conducted interviews for The Paris Review and is a regular presenter at literary festivals across Australia. Chris lives on Phillip Island, next to a penguin sanctuary.
Nardi Simpson
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller from the NSW freshwater floodplains. Her first novel Song of the Crocodile was published by Hachette in 2020 and her second, the Belburd released in October 2024.
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.
