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 writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Her debut novel, Song of the Crocodile, was a 2018 winner of a black&write! writing fellowship.
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose work includes The Railwayman’s Wife, A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. A former editor of Griffith Review, she also works as a mentor and facilitator, and as editorial consultant for the Climate Justice Observatory.
