By Madeline Gleeson
First published in Sydney PEN Magazine, November Issue 2016.

To be able to write, and to have your words read, is a great privilege. Never is this more so than when telling someone else’s story on their behalf; narrating a trauma, or a death; shining light on abuse of power; or documenting a critical period in a country’s history, in the hope it might endure on the historical record as a permanent memory of what has been done...

By Professor Jane McAdam
First published in The Conversation, 1 December 2016

On average, one person is displaced each second by a disaster-related hazard. In global terms, that’s about 26 million people a year. Most move within their own countries, but some are forced across international borders. As climate change continues, more frequent and extreme weather events are expected...