Talking, teaching and writing
Talking
A selection of recent talking opportunities:
Life Sentences – The Woolf Man
7am – The Weekend Read: Sophie Cunningham on the cost of native logging description
7am – The crime deep in the forest, with Sophie Cunningham
Roaring Stories Bookshop – Sophie Cunningham in conversation with Michelle de Kretser
The First Time Podcast – Masters Series: Sophie Cunningham
ABC iview – Australia's Favourite Tree
NonfictionNOW 2021 – Essaying the Impasse
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria – Victoria Nature Festival: The Future of Fungi | Victoria Nature Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival – Writers on Film: Sophie Cunningham
WordFest 2021 Sir John Monash Lecture – Sophie Cunningham chaired a panel and Q&A with writers: James Bradley and Melanie Cheng
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art – Sophie Cunningham on Royal Park
The Garrett – At home with Sophie Cunningham
ABC RN Big Ideas with Paul Barclay – Can crises trigger positive change?
ABC Gardening Australia – My Garden Path | Sophie Cunningham
Life Sentences podcast with Caroline Baum – Sophie Cunningham talks about using biography as the thematic spine of her novel This Devastating Fever
Teaching
Current teaching through:
Kill Your Darlings – Writing Creative Non-Fiction Essays
Kill Your Darlings – Nature Writing
Writing
A selection of recent writing:
Sydney Morning Herald (2023) – Who can tell the wood from the trees when it comes to climate change?
7am (2023) – The crime deep in the forest, with Sophie Cunningham
The Monthly (2022) – Firewood harvesting threatens forests
The Saturday Paper (2022) – Margi Prideaux – Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe
Good Weekend (2022) – Without being able to garden or walk or swim, I don’t really know how to write
Guardian Australia (2021) – Canopy Meg: a scientist’s pioneering life in the treetops
Griffith Review (2021) – Sitting with difficult things: Meaningful action in contested times
Meanjin (2020) – If You Choose to Stay, We May Not Be Able to Save You
The Monthly (2019) – The Djab Wurrung Birthing Tree
The Monthly (2016) – Escape to Alcatraz
Australian Book Review (2015 – Calibre Prize recipient) – Staying with the trouble