Speculating Futures and Bending Genres – Carrington Hotel, Katoomba
‘Join three talented Varuna alumni who, in the face of a rapidly changing world, are creatively reimagining our futures and challenging traditional literary genres: Steven Amsterdam What the Family Needed, Claire Corbett When We Have Wings and Kim Westwood The Courier’s New Bicycle.’
Presented with Varuna, The Writers’ House.
Once again I’ll be back at the beautiful Carrington Hotel in Katoomba, this time to discuss Speculating Futures and Bending Genres with Steven Amsterdam and Kim Westwood as part of the Sydney Writers Festival. I think it will be a very interesting discussion as I feel, and from what I’ve read of Amsterdam’s and Westwood’s work, I doubt they’d disagree, that speculative fiction speaks very strongly to the present, to the concerns that we all feel right now. As William Burroughs said, ‘when you cut into the present the future leaks out.’
