Between the covers of our literary journals and weekend newspapers, reviewers shape what we read and buy. But as Gideon Haigh recently opined book reviewing is in trouble in Australia as reviewers “are the lowliest of contributors” at most media outlets. Our panel looks at how we can create a vibrant critical culture around literature that is both independent and professional.
This session will be chaired by Peter Mares.
Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport, business, both and neither for almost thirty years. He left newspapers for freelance journalism in 1995, and has contributed to more than fifty different publications.
Hilary McPhee was a founding director of McPhee Gribble Publishers and a Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a founding director of New Matilda.com.
Peter Craven is one of Australia’s best-known literary critics. He edited Scripsi with Michael Heyward and was the founding editor of the Black Inc. Best Of annuals (Essays, Stories, Poems) and of Quarterly Essay.
Rebecca Starford is the associate publisher at Affirm Press and the co-founder and editor at Kill Your Darlings.
Peter Mares has been a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for more than 20 years and presents the weekly public policy discussion program the National Interest on ABC Radio National.
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