Speaker Series: K*ll Your Boomers - Fiona Wright in conversation

Join writer Fiona Wright for a sharp, darkly funny author talk on her debut novel K*ll Your Boomers. Set amid mouldy share houses, spiralling rents and the ever-receding Great Australian Dream, Wright introduces Keira, a thirty‑something desperate for a foothold in a market built to exclude her. Witty, unsettling and incisive, this conversation explores housing, inheritance, generational tension and how far we’ll go for a place to call home.

Fiona will be joined in conversation by Steph Harmon, culture editor of Guardian Australia.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

FIONA WRIGHT is a writer, editor, poet and critic from Sydney. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger won the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier’s Douglas Stewart Prize. Her first poetry collection, Knuckled, won the 2012 Dame Mary Gilmore Award, while Domestic Interior was shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry.

Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize. She completed a PhD at Western Sydney University’s Writing & Society Research Centre. Her poems and essays have been published in The Australian, Meanjin, Island, Overland,The Lifted Brow, Seizure and HEAT.

STEPH HARMON is the culture editor of Guardian Australia.

ABOUT THE VENUE:

MARRICKVILLE PAVILION AND LIBRARY is accessible by lift from both the street and ground levels. The venue is accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility aids. There is a hearing loop available.

If you have any access or support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know when you book via the order form to ensure that we can arrange any reasonable adjustments.

We may take photos and video of the speakers and audience. See details here.

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