Event #78

Millennial Dystopias

Sat 10 Oct 2026

Fiona Wright + Max Easton + Alex Cothren + Maeve Marsden

Fairfax Studio

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#Performances

Sat 10 Oct 2026 - 3:30pm

Fairfax Studio

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Millennial Dystopias

Fiona Wright (Kill Your Boomers), Max Easton (Now, Autonomy), Jess Ho (People with Money), Alex Cothren (Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere).
Chair: Maeve Marsden
3:30–4:30pm, Saturday 10 October, Fairfax Studio

Modern life is a lot. Between the housing crisis, the intergenerational wealth crisis and the climate crisis, it sure feels like we’re running out of options – but surely that means we should get creative instead of giving up? These nimble and quick-witted works of fiction capture different ways of pushing back against the follies of contemporary Australia, from class warfare to anarchist collectives, from radical plans to dystopian acts.

#Artists

Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright is a writer and critic. Her debut novel is Kill Your Boomers. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Her poetry collections are Knuckled and Domestic Interior.

Max Easton

Max Easton is a writer from south-west Sydney. Now, Autonomy is his third novel with Giramondo, sharing characters and plot threads with The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award) and its acclaimed follow-up, Paradise Estate.

Alex Cothren

Alex Cothren is a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University, on Kaurna Yerta. He has won the Carmel Bird, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey awards for short fiction. His story collection, Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, is out through Pink Shorts Press.

Maeve Marsden

Maeve Marsden is a writer, theatremaker and the Creative Director of Varuna the National Writers’ House and the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival. She is best known for producing Queerstories, a national storytelling project that has brought more than 500 LGBTQIA+ writers to stages around the country.