Ashley Hay
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Ashley has written for a number of publications including The Independent Monthly, Griffith Review, The Bulletin and The Monthly. She reviews books for The Weekend Australian.

In mid-2018, she was appointed editor of Griffith Review, and has overseen editions of this Australian quarterly of good writing and ideas since GR62: All Being Equal.

Below you can find links to some of her journalism and other broadcasts and excerpts.


The Monthly
  • Holy Shark (March 2017)
  • Desert Blooms (July 2016)
  • The Ipswich Treehouse Story (Oct 2015)
  • Mosquito Diplomacy (May 2014)
  • Cai's Tree (Dec 2013)
  • Our Septuagenarian Cricketers (Aug 2013)
  • Lights Out (Dec 2012)
  • Veni, Vidi, Venus (June 2012)
  • The Baskerville Case (Dec 2011)
  • Operation Tom Yum (Sept 2008)
  • The Lovely Bones (July 2008)
  • The Charm of a Charm (June 2008)
  • Lazarus Taxa (Nov 2007) 
  • Written in the Body (Oct 2007) 
  • The Human Zoo (March 2007) 
  • Ticked Off (Sept 2007)
  • Kate and the Whale (Dec/Jan 2006)
  • Hopper’s Crossing (Nov 2006)
  • John White’s Table (Sept 2006)
  • The View from the Bridge (Aug 2006)
  • Gods of War and Rain (July 2006) 


Good Weekend Magazine
The Aussie Mozzie Posse (June 2011) - this piece was anthologised in the Best Australian Science Writing 2012; it won a Bragg UNSW Press Science Writing Prize in that year's competition, and was also a finalist for the Eureka awards in 2012

Australian Geographic
  • The Big Sting - Fighting Malaria in the Solomon Islands (May-June 2013) - you can watch a video about this story here
  • City Under Siege: The 2011 Brisbane Flood (Aug-Oct 2011) - this piece was shortlisted as best single article in the 2011 Publishers’ Association Awards
  • Out of the Shadows: Australia's Convict Past (April-June 2011) 

Qantas/The Australian Way 
  • Margaret Olley's Legacy Lives On (June 2015)
  • Fire in the Stone (March 2015)
  • Call of the Wildflower - Transylvania (May 2014)
  • Land of the Lost and Found - Jordan (Nov 2013)
  • One Perfect Day - Brisbane (Feb 2013)
  • FantAsia: The Seventh Asia-Pacific Triennial (December 2012)
  • Almighty Marble - Acropolis (May 2008)

Qantas/Air Magazine
  • Jane Valentine - sculptor (Sept 2010)
  • The Cloud Appreciation Society (Sept 2010)
 
The Bulletin (Ashley worked at The Bulletin between 1999-2006. During that time she edited eight editions of its popular and highly successful "Summer Reading" issues. She was also the magazine's literary editor between 2000-2006.  The Bulletin closed in January 2008.)
  • Great Vibrations (Jan 22, 2008) - on the 2008 Sydney Festival
  • Buried Treasure (Dec 18, 2007) - on Australia's first amber discoveries
  • Rainbow Warriors (Dec 19, 2006) - on sea slugs and their foremost Australian aficionado, Bill Rudman
  • Harriet the Star (Nov 9, 2005) - on the world's oldest living being, Harriet the Tortoise
  • The Wonders of Antarctica (Apr 6, 2005) - on a voyage south
  • Cash and Harry (June 11, 2003) - on the extent of the Harry Potter phenomenon as its fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, was published
  • Gum Grower’s Ark (Oct 23, 2002) - on modern eucalyptographer Dean Nicolle
  • Pointe of View (June 19, 2002) - on the Royal Ballet's 2002 Australian tour

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Radio National
  • Ockham's Razor - on winning the 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
  • Science Show - on editing this year's Best Australian Science Writing (March 2014)
  • Ockham's Razor - on Museum (2007) 
  • Ockham’s Razor - on Herbarium (April 2005)
  • Perspective - on writing Gum (May 2003)


Television
  • Big Ideas: What Makes Us Human - Thomas Suddendorf and Rob Brooks in conversation with Ashley Hay at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2014
  • Slow TV - Bill McKibben in conversation with Ashley Hay at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2010 [part 2 of this conversation is available here]
  • Reality Bites: From The Heart – The Eucalypt (directed by Bruce Permezel), screened in June 2004 and again in June 2006


In Conversation (audio online)
  • With Kate Grenville about her novel The Lieutenant, Sydney Writers’ Festival, 2009
  • With David Malouf about his novel Ransom, State Library of Queensland, 2009
  • With Helen Garner about her novel The Spare Room, State Library of Queensland, 2009


Tourism Australia
Brand campaign on the London Underground, 23 May-19 June, 2005
This campaign on London's Underground rail network featured several authors' descriptions of their own Australian experiences alongside images that reflected their words – the authors were Lonely Planet’s global travel editor Don George, novelist Tim Winton, and Ashley Hay. Ashley's words were extracted from her essay "Ultramarine", originally commissioned by Mark Tredinnick for A Place on Earth (2003).
More than 400 large poster ads appeared in 118 London Underground stations, as well as in 4000 tube card panels.


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