Griffith Review

"The Griffith Review" is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork, "with each edition dedicated to contemporary themes". [cite book
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title = Griffith Review, Re-imagining Australia
publisher = The Age
date = March 8, 2008] it is published by Griffith University in conjunction with ABC Books. It covers ongoing events in major capital centres and regions, particularly the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Byron Bay Writers Festivals and celebrates good writing. It has won major national awards for essays advancing public debate, such as the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, is regularly syndicated in major newspapers and forms the basis of ABC Radio broadcasts. Essays and stories are regularly included in Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories. An anthology of the memoirs which explores life from birth to death was published as "A Revealed Life: Australian Writers and their journey in memoir" was published by ABC Books in 2007.

The lead essay of up to 20,000 words is crucial and frames the topic explored by other writers who present a wide range of other perspectives. This fleshes out the complexity of the subject with high quality writing. Lead essays over this time were written by Noel Pearson, Frank Moorhouse, Bill Bowtell, Glyn Davis, Creed O’Hanlon, David Burchell, and Murray Sayle, other major contributors include; Margaret Simons, David Malouf, Marcia Langton, Peter Beattie, and Michael Wesley

Julianne Schultz is the editor of Griffith REVIEW and a professor in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She has written extensively about the media and is the author of "Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy, accountability and the media" (Cambridge University Press, 1998), "Steel City Blues" (Penguin, 1985) and the librettos Black River and Going into Shadows.

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