JOURNALISM ETC ...
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
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
Qantas/The Australian Way
Qantas/Air Magazine
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.)
Radio National
Television
In Conversation (audio online)
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.
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
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.