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 VictoriaVictoria 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