How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August edition entitled Hey Utopia.

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Scaling Change - Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small

Inga Simpson reads her fiction from Griffith Review 71.

Inga Simpson is the author of Understory: A Life With Trees (Hachette, 2017), Where the Trees Were (Hachette, 2016), Nest (Hachette, 2014) and Mr Wigg (Hachette, 2013).

She has a PhD in creative writing from QUT, and has recently submitted a PhD in English literature at the University of Queensland.

Remaking the Balance examines how our natural, economic and cultural systems might be refashioned post-pandemic: will it be a return to business as usual, or can we reinvent our relationship with all that is animal, vegetable and mineral to create a more sustainable future?

Edited by Ashley Hay, Remaking the Balance looks at how we can do more with what we have, and features leading writers and thinkers, including Gabrielle Chan, Clare Wright, Matthew Evans, Sophie Cunningham, Inga Simpson, John Kinsella,  Declan Fry, plus and exclusive Q&A with Barbara Kingsolver.

Inga Simpson reading Blue crane from Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance

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