EVENTS

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Ashley will be in conversation with Professor Ian Lowe as part of this year's Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers' Festival (4-5 May 2025). 

Through late April and early May, she will be in conversation with Jane Rawson, Laura Elvery and Hannah Kent for Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane.

And in late May, she will be talking with writers including Samantha Harvey, Ceridwen Dovey, Lech Blaine, Inga Simpson, Sophie Cunningham and Andrew Denton for this year's Sydney Writers' Festival.

She is teaching a Kickstart Your Writing course over several weeks from early May for Varuna, The National Writers' House (another course will be offered later this year), and a one-day course – Show Up and Write – at Avid Reader in Brisbane at the end of that month. 

For more information, follow the links above, or visit Ashley's Facebook page. 

Ashley has participated in many writers' festivals and conferences over more than twenty-five years and is available for lectures, workshops and other presentations, conversations and consultancies.

She is a skilled and respected facilitator and regularly chairs sessions and conducts one-on-one conversations with writers about their work at festivals and other events in Australia and abroad.

​She works as a mentor through the Australian Writers' Mentoring Program and also as a writing coach for individuals and small groups, most recently through Avid Reader and Varuna: The National Writers' House.

She has worked as an editorial/narrative consultant for the Climate Justice Observatory (CJO) and the Relational Insights Data Lab at Griffith University, and for the McKinnon Institute at Monash University.  

L-R [top]: Ashley Hay, Teela Reid, Kirli Saunders and Thomas Mayo discuss Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2022
L-R [bottom]: Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Grace Lucas-Pennington, Ashley Hay, Karen Lee and Sarah Runcie ahead of the authors and editors panel at the Brisbane Writers' Festival 2021