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The Griffith Review is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork, "with each edition dedicated to contemporary themes".^[1] It is a joint venture between Griffith University and ABC Books, and was first published in 2003.^[2] Each issue is themed but provides opportunity for broad interpretation, with the first issue titled "Insecurity in the New World Order".

Each issue has a lead essay of up to 20,000 words which frames the topic explored by other writers who present a wide range of perspectives on it. Lead essays have been written by Noel Pearson, Frank Moorhouse, Bill Bowtell, Glyn Davis, Creed O’Hanlon, David Burchell, and Murray Sayle, with other major contributors including Margaret Simons, David Malouf, Marcia Langton, Peter Beattie and Michael Wesley. Of the first issue, academic Cica wrote that "Analysis sits comfortably with anecdote and art".^[2]

Recognition

The Griffith Review has won several 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 memoirs which appeared in the journal was published as A Revealed Life: Australian Writers and their Journey in Memoir by ABC Books in 2007.

External links

• Griffith Review website

References