Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes
Sometimes, we all need to get away...
Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open and opening minds to places once out of reach. As restrictions lift and confines ease, it lights out for new territories, heading over the horizon to access other worlds.
Where are we now, and where do we want to be tomorrow? And who do we want to be when we get there? As another testing year comes to an end, this edition celebrates what might come next.
From mermaids and space matriarchs to fresh starts and flights of fancy, Escape Routes explores what it means to break out and break free.
‘A literary degustation… The richness of these stories is amplified by the resonance between them.’ — Ed Wright, The Weekend Australian
‘(Griffith) Review doesn’t shirk from the nuanced and doesn’t seek refuge in simplistic notions or slogans. It remains Australia’s primary literary review.’ — Professor Ken Smith, Dean and CEO ANZSOG
‘I’ve loved what Griffith Review has put together...they’re very human pieces, not hot takes. That’s what GR has done so well…found a way past the veneer of things to their messy, bloody tendernesses.’ — Beejay Silcox, writer
Ashley Hay is an award-winning writer, editor and journalist whose work spans fiction, narrative non-fiction, essays and science writing.
She has published eight books as well as a range of essays, articles, reviews and short stories for anthologies and journals including The Monthly, Australian Geographic, Creative Non-Fiction, The Guardian and Griffith Review.
In June 2018, Ashley became editor of Griffith Review – the second in its sixteen-year history. Ashley oversees the creation and curation of four editions of the journal annually – as well as exclusive online content – giving voice to up to 150 writers each year.
