City Program
Let Me Be Brief: Paige Clark and Chloe Wilson
Sat 4 Sep, 12pmState Library Victoria, Create Quarter
In dissolving the limits of imagination, surreal storytelling offers fertile ground to satirise and challenge the norms, mores and absurdities of everyday life. Two of Australia’s most original new voices, Paige Clark and Chloe Wilson, speak with Veronica Sullivan about their short story collections bound by fantastical and unsettling elements. Clark’s She Is Haunted takes topics like transnational Asian identity and the politics of food into strange, sometimes uneasy places, drawing comparisons to Carmen Maria Machado. Wilson’s suavely humorous Hold Your Fire portrays destructive women, awful men and embarrassing bodies, calling moral truths into question.
Duration
1 hour
Categories
Event artists
Paige Clark is a Chinese-American-Australian writer, researcher and teacher. Her fiction has appeared in Meanjin, and, in 2019, she was runner-up for the Peter Carey Short Story Award and shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. She Is Haunted is her first book.
Veronica Sullivan is the Head of Programming at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and the chair of the Custodial Committee of the Kat Muscat Fellowship. She co-founded and co-hosted Sisteria, a podcast about women and non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture.