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.