Is part of Fire, Flood and Plague – Essays about 2020 2020 series - publisher essay
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'The overarching project of my life has been making myself safe. But what is the point if everyone else is drowning and burning and starving?' 

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    y separately published work icon The Guardian Australia 12 August 2020 19894440 2020 newspaper issue 2020
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    y separately published work icon Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 Sophie Cunningham (editor), Melbourne : Vintage Australia , 2020 19897834 2020 anthology essay

    'Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times.

    'Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year.

    'Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : Vintage Australia , 2020
    pg. 78-83
    Note: With title: Don't Blink.
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