Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 06 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The novella occupies a special place in literature – we all know it’s longer than a short story and shorter than a novel. Famous novellas include some of literature’s greats: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Wide Sargasso Sea, Animal Farm. But what is it that defines a novella? What are its strengths as a form? And why are we still writing them?
In an event to mark Griffith REVIEW’s Novella Project II, Cate Kennedy, Megan McGrath, Jane Jervis-Read and Julianne Schultz will kick around these questions.
Featuring
Jane Jervis-Read
Jane Jervis-Read is a fiction writer from Melbourne. Her debut novella, Midnight Blue and Endlessly Tall, won the inaugural Viva La Novella competition and was published by Seizure in 2013.
The novella tells the story of Jessica, a mental health carer whose life becomes inextricably entwined with her new patient, Eloise.
Jane’s award-winning short fiction has been published in Australia’s foremost literary journals including Meanjin, Overland, Eureka Street, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review and twice shortlisted for the Age Short Story Competition.
Megan McGrath
Megan McGrath is an award-winning fiction writer from Queensland. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Griffith REVIEW, Meanjin, Seizure, Tincture Journal and One Book Many Brisbanes, among others.
She works for Brisbane Writers Festival and tutors at Queensland Writers Centre. Whale Station is her most recent work.
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely ...
Julianne Schultz
Professor Emeritus Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the Chair of The Conversation. She was the publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review, and is Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture at Griffith's Griffith Centre ...