Griffith Review
In 2018, Ashley became editor of Griffith Review, succeeding the founding editor of the publication, Julianne Schultz, in this position. Over the next four years, she curated and commissioned sixteen editions of this leading Australian literary journal, working with more than five hundred emerging and established writers, academics and other experts to craft stories in the form of essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry, conversations and more. Alongside this, she contributed to the shaping of Griffith Review's own narrative through its themes, its strategies, its partnerships, events and engagements, working to build on its history of thought leadership and creativity and cementing its role in Australia's literary ecology.
This was an extraordinary opportunity to mainline the frontiers of Australian creative thought and inquiry across four years, taking the pulse of readers’ appetites for provocation and reflection, for epiphany and change, while understanding and participating in some of the stories Australia’s writers and thinkers thought were the most urgent to tell.
This was an extraordinary opportunity to mainline the frontiers of Australian creative thought and inquiry across four years, taking the pulse of readers’ appetites for provocation and reflection, for epiphany and change, while understanding and participating in some of the stories Australia’s writers and thinkers thought were the most urgent to tell.
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Visit www.griffithreview.com for information on the latest edition as well as its archive and store.
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‘During [2021, Griffith Review] has dedicated numbers to our human need for escape, the stubborn dream of Utopia, our uneasy collective psychological state, and finding a new balance in every aspect of life in the pandemic's wake. Hay's genius is to pick a subject that feels utterly apt for the moment, then to convince the smartest thinkers and finest writers around to contribute something on the topic … Griffith Review is the sound of Australian democracy and culture thinking out loud.’
– Geordie Williamson, The Australian |
‘Where the news cycle tends to feed cynicism, Griffith Review is the necessary counterpoint: a place of ideas and possibility. It’s a relief to find the quality writing, reflection and observation nurtured in its pages.’
– Billy Griffiths, historian and writer |
‘I've loved what GR has put together about Covid – 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, essayist and critic |