Wasted charts familiar territory for Australian communities, where excessive alcohol consumption among young people is the norm. Join Elspeth Muir as she shares a deeply personal story about the real costs of such behaviour.
Moderated by Hayley Singer.
For more on Elspeth Muir, read our Artist Highlight.
Hayley Singer completed her Doctorate in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches in the School of Culture and Communication. Her creative and scholarly writing practices engage with ecofeminist politics and poetics. Hayley has been the recipient of the inaugural Grace Marion Wilson emerging writers award for creative non-fiction and the Felix Meyer Travelling scholarship. Her fiction, non-fiction, poetry and book reviews have been published in a number of Australian journals and anthologies, including, Meanjin, Page Seventeen, Writing from Below and Press 100: Love Letters (forthcoming).
Elspeth Muir is a Brisbane author whose writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One, Griffith Review, Voiceworks and Bumf. She is a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland.
