#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
7:30pm, Monday 22nd February 2027
Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
In 2024, a thirty-year-old writer sold her debut novel in a twelve-way auction; it hadn't even hit shelves before Amazon MGM Studios bought the film rights. The writer was Caro Claire Burke and the book was Yesteryear, a shrewd satire of American misinformation that follows a successful tradwife who suddenly wakes up in 1855, where no one on Instagram can hear her scream.
One of the biggest books of 2026, Yesteryear has generated about as much discourse as the tradwife movement itself – discourse that uncannily refracts the novel's sharp interrogation of gender politics and online performance. Join the remarkable Caro Claire Burke in Brisbane for a conversation about satire, social media spin and the whiplash-inducing performance of womanhood in the 2020s.
#Artists
Caro Claire Burke
Caro Claire Burke received her Master's in Fine Arts from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the co-host of Diabolical Lies, a politics and culture podcast. Yesteryear is her first novel.
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.
