Talking, teaching and writing

Online Teaching for 2025

Faber Academy — Writing True Stories

Faber Academy —Edit and Submit Your Novel

Kill Your Darlings – Writing Creative Non-Fiction Essays

Kill Your Darlings – Nature 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

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