Something Wicked

Fri 12 May 2023

Myles McGuire + Bora Chung + Paul Dalla Rosa + Katerina Gibson

Auditorium 1, slq

Main Festival

BWF053

#Performances

#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 and editor. After starting at BWF as a clown in 2022, he joined the team as Program Coordinator in 2023.

Myles’ fiction has been published in Griffith Review and been nominated for awards including the Peter Carey Short Story Award. He has provided editing and proofing services for Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Voiceworks. In 2021 he was awarded a Master of Philosophy by QUT, where he currently teaches creative writing.

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.