Event #93

Elaine Castillo: Moderation

Sun 11 Oct 2026

Elaine Castillo + Carody Culver

Underground Theatre

Regular Program

#Performances

Sun 11 Oct 2026 - 9:30am

Underground Theatre

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Elaine Castillo: Moderation

In conversation with Carody Culver
9:30–10:30pm, Sunday 11 October, Underground Theatre

Girlie Delmundo has a black belt in emotional repression. A social media content moderator and a first-generation eldest daughter, she deals efficiently with trauma every day, both online and in her extended Filipino-American family. But Girlie’s life takes a turn when she’s promoted to moderating virtualreality theme parks – and when she finally meets someone she actually likes. Acclaimed US writer Elaine Castillo’s second novel is a wickedly witty skewering of Big Tech, an astute portrait of invisible labour and an exhilarating Austen-style romance for the internet age.

#Artists

Elaine Castillo

Named one of “30 of the Planet’s Most Exciting Young People” by the Financial Times, Elaine Castillo’s novel Moderation was longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize in Fiction and named one of the Top Ten Books of 2025 by The Atlantic, Slate, and a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, and more.

Carody Culver

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She's also a writer and a literary interviewer. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, Books+Publishing and more, and she's been a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022. You can find her on Substack at acriticalcondition.substack.com.