Don’t miss Andy Merrifield, Ashley Hay and Brendan Gleeson as they imagine what our future might look like.
This event has been updated since the BWF Program went to print. Please note, the revised details of this session are Sun 11 September, 10am – 11am, QLD Terrace, SLQ.
Stanley Pl, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
Open in MapsAshley Hay’s latest novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, received the Colin Roderick Award from the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies and the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Prize. A former literary editor of The Bulletin, her work has also appeared in publications including Creative Nonfiction, Griffith Review, The Monthly, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Short Stories, and Best Australian Science Writing, which she also edited in 2014. She lives in Brisbane and her new novel will be published in 2017.
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar, urbanist and writer. He is the author of The Politics of Encounter, Magical Marxism, Dialectical Urbanism and Metromarxism, as well as numerous articles and essays on urbanism, art, literature and politics. His most recent book, The New Urban Question (2014), grapples with establishing new coordinates for urban research and politics under the current conditions of planetary urbanisation. His forthcoming book The Amateur (Verso, 2017) explores the spirit of amateurism in our age of the professional expert.
