Something Wicked
Myles McGuire + Bora Chung + Paul Dalla Rosa + Katerina Gibson
Auditorium 1, slq
Main Festival
BWF053
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
As our attention spans become ever more fractured, these absurd, provocative vignettes perfectly capture the disorientation of the present. With linguistic economy and imaginative perversity, these stars of short fiction are redefining the form for the modern age, their stories featuring twink death, talking poos and houses made of literal rubbish.
#Artists
Myles McGuire
Myles McGuire is a writer, editor and semi-professional conversationalist. After starting at BWF as a clown in 2022, he joined the team as Programs Coordinator in 2023. His writing has been nominated for prizes including the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award and the Peter Carey Short Story Award.
Bora Chung
Cursed Bunny, a collection of Bora Chung’s science fiction short stories translated into English by Anton Hur, was short-listed for the International Booker Prize 2022. Her other major works, To Meet Her and Red Sword, will also be translated by Anton Hur.
Photograph ⓒ Hyeyoung.
Paul Dalla Rosa
Paul Dalla Rosa is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Meanjin, and New York Tyrant.
Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson is the author Women I Know, a collection of short stories published with Scribner (2022). Her stories have appeared in Granta, HEAT, The Griffith Review, Overland, Island and elsewhere.
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