Griffith Review Contributors Circle Residency Annoucement

Congratulations to the five winners of the 2020 Griffith Review Contributions Circle Residency Fellowships. We look forward to hosting you all at Varuna!

Phillipa McGuinness

Phillipa McGuinness is a non-fiction publisher and author of the critically acclaimed memoir 2001: The Year Everything Changed (Penguin Random House, 2018). Her project Skin Deep is a cultural history of skin that’s under contract with Penguin Random House.

Megan McGrath

Megan McGrath is an award-winning writer from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Her project is a literary novel-in-progress, The Night Horizon, about two young travellers on a cruise holiday who form a bond that forces long-hidden secrets and lies into the open.

Hannah Holland

Hannah Holland is a Canberra-based researcher, writer and community engagement specialist. Her project TransLate is a three-part work (a series of essays, a book-length memoir and a blog) that documents Hannah’s coming out as transgender in her fifties.

Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has two works-in-progress: one, The Wide Blue Yonder, is a diary novel about a woman stationed on a South Pacific island sometime in the near future; the other, Safekeeping, is a collection of interconnected stories about characters in a dying country town.

Amanda Niehaus

Amanda Niehaus is a scientist and writer; her first novel, The Breeding Season, was published to widespread acclaim in 2019 (Allen & Unwin). Her project, Relativity, is a literary novel-in-progress that explores inheritance, ageing, forgiveness and the physics of time.