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| Griffiths Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Griffiths Review |
| Category | Literary magazine |
| Publisher | Griffith University |
| Firstdate | 2003 |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Griffiths Review is an Australian literary and cultural journal published by Griffith University that presents essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, and poetry by established and emerging writers. Founded in 2003, the magazine has showcased voices that intersect with Australian public life, drawing contributors connected to institutions and events across literature, politics, and the arts.
The magazine was established in 2003 with an inaugural issue that aligned with conversations emerging around the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Howard Ministry, and debates sparked by the Bringing Them Home report. Early editorial meetings included figures linked to Griffith University and contemporaries from University of Queensland, University of Sydney, and Monash University. Across the 2000s the journal ran projects responding to national crises including commentary on the East Timorese intervention, the Iraq War, and analyses referencing the legacy of the Mabo decision and the Keating government. In the 2010s editorial curation engaged with themes resonant with international counterparts such as The New Yorker, Granta, and London Review of Books while commissioning pieces that dialogued with events like the Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008), the Australian federal election, 2013, and cultural responses to the Sydney Biennale.
Editorial direction has been steered by scholars and journalists associated with institutions such as Griffith University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, and the Western Sydney University. Contributors have included writers connected to the Miles Franklin Award, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and the Booker Prize longlist, as well as journalists from outlets like The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian (Australia), and The Monthly. The magazine has published essays by authors whose work intersects with figures such as Patrick White, Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, and David Malouf and has printed reportage by correspondents formerly reporting on events like the Bali bombings, the Anzac Day commemorations, and investigative pieces echoing inquiries similar to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Guest editors and advisory board members have included academics with profiles at Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, and cultural leaders from the National Gallery of Australia and the Sydney Opera House.
The journal publishes long-form essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, and poetry with thematic issues addressing subjects such as reconciliation after the Bringing Them Home report, environmental policy debates linked to the Great Barrier Reef, urban change in the context of Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, and reflections on cultural institutions like the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the National Film and Sound Archive. The magazine has run thematic commissions concerning Indigenous sovereignty debates that intersect with references to the High Court of Australia decisions like Mabo v Queensland (No 2), climate writing connected to the UNFCCC, and essays on migration that engage with histories of the White Australia policy, the Vietnam War, and the Boat People (Vietnam). Fiction and poetry have featured writers in conversation with the oeuvres of Katherine Mansfield, Germaine Greer, Judith Wright, Les Murray, and engagements with film-makers such as Baz Luhrmann and Peter Weir.
Published by an imprint of Griffith University in Brisbane, the journal issues multiple editions per year and distributes through bookshops associated with chains like Dymocks and independent sellers across Australia as well as subscription channels used by periodicals such as Meanjin and Southerly. Back issues have circulated in libraries including the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, and the State Library of Victoria and have been catalogued in university collections at Griffith University, University of Queensland, and University of New South Wales. Special editions have been launched at venues such as the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Critics and commentators in outlets like The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Guardian (Australia), and The Monthly have assessed the magazine's contribution to national debate alongside international reviews comparing it to Granta, The New Yorker, and London Review of Books. Academic citations in journals affiliated with ANU Press, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press indicate its influence on scholarship about contemporary Australian culture, reconciliation debates following the Bringing Them Home report, and environmental humanities concerned with the Great Barrier Reef. Public discussions of essays published in the journal have intersected with parliamentary inquiries in the Australian Parliament and commentary by figures from the High Court of Australia, the Australian Human Rights Commission, and cultural institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Individual essays and contributors have been shortlisted for national prizes including the Walkley Awards, the Miles Franklin Award, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and the ASAL (Australian Society of Authors) Awards. Notable essays have provoked debate engaging figures associated with the Howard Ministry, the Rudd Government, and the Gillan government and have been excerpted in anthologies published by houses like Allen & Unwin, Penguin Random House, and Text Publishing. Selected pieces have been included in collections such as the Best Australian Essays and cited in academic monographs from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Category:Australian literary magazines