Selected Journalism, Broadcasts and Other Excerpts

Ashley has written for a number of publications including The Independent Monthly, The Bulletin, The Monthly, and Qantas’s two magazines, The Australian Way and Air. Here are links to some of her journalism and other excerpts.


The Monthly

Our Septuagenarian Cricketers (Aug 2013)
Lights Out (Dec 2012)
Veni, Vidi, Venus (June 2012)
The Baskerville Case (Dec 2011)
Operation Tom Yum (Sept 2008)
The Lovely Bones (July 2008)
The Charm of a Charm (June 2008)
Lazarus Taxa (Nov 2007)
Written in the Body (Oct 2007)
Storm Spotters (May 2007)
The Human Zoo (March 2007)
What Lindy Did Next (Feb 2007)
Ticked Off (Sept 2007)
Kate and the Whale (Dec/Jan 2006)
Hopper’s Crossing (Nov 2006)
John White’s Table (Sept 2006)
The View from the Bridge (Aug 2006)
Gods of War and Rain (July 2006) 


Good Weekend Magazine

The Aussie Mozzie Posse (June 2011)

Australian Geographic

The Big Sting - Fighting Malaria in the Solomon Islands (May-June 2013) - PDF here
Out of the Shadows: Australia's Convict Past (April-June 2011)

Air Magazine

Jane Valentine - sculptor (Sept 2010)

Qantas Magazine

One Perfect Day - Brisbane (Feb 2013)
FantAsia: The Seventh Asia-Pacific Triennial (December 2012)
Almighty Marble - Acropolis (May 2008)

The Bulletin (articles in PDF)

Great Vibrations (Jan 22, 2008)
Buried Treasure (Dec 18, 2007)
Rainbow Warriors (Dec 19, 2006)
Harriet the Star (Nov 9, 2005)
The Wonders of Antarctica (Apr 6, 2005)
Cash and Harry (June 11, 2003)
Gum Grower’s Ark (Oct 23, 2002)
Pointe of View (June 19, 2002)

Radio National
Ockham's Razor - Museum (2007)
Ockham’s Razor - Herbarium (April 2005)
Perspective (May 2003)


ABC-TV
Reality Bites: From The Heart – The Eucalypt (directed by Bruce Permezel), screened in June 2004 and again in June 2006


In Conversation (audio online)
With Kate Grenville about her novel The Lieutenant, Sydney Writers’ Festival, 2009
With David Malouf about his novel Ransom, State Library of Queensland, 2009
With Helen Garner about her novel The Spare Room, State Library of Queensland, 2009


Tourism Australia
Brand campaign on the London Underground, 23 May-19 June, 2005
This campaign on London's Underground rail network featured several authors' descriptions of their own Australian experiences alongside images that reflected their words – Lonely Planet’s global travel editor Don George; novelist Tim Winton; and Sydney writer Ashley Hay.
More than 400 large poster ads appeared in 118 London Underground stations, as well as in 4000 tube card panels.