Griffith Review 87: No Place Like Home

There’s no place like home – although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be where we long to return or can’t wait to escape. But for all its symbolic resonance, home also has myriad material consequences: from the picket fence to the political arena, it raises questions of sovereignty, identity, economics, class and domestic labour. What’s the future of home ownership? What does it mean to protect endangered languages? How do our conceptions of home shift when we start new lives in different countries?  

This edition of Griffith Review heads out in search of home – what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self.  

Submissions are open from Monday 14 October to Sunday 3 November.  

You can submit up to four individual poems, each no longer than two pages.

Submissions close: 11:59 pm AEST, 3 November 2024

Publication date: February 2025