PFLW EVENT 3: Masculinity and Humour
Sat, Jun 26
|Port Fairy
Through their experimental works, both Wayne and Michael address masculinity, especially in an Australian context. Each author employs a degree of comic relief, and it’s this that will be the focus here - how does the use of comedy help with the heavy lifting of problematic issues?
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2021, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Port Fairy, 37 James St, Port Fairy VIC 3284, Australia
About the event
Wayne Marshall’s stories have appeared in Going Down Swinging, Kill Your Darlings, Island, Review of Australian Fiction, and other places. His story collection Shirl (then Frontier Sport) was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. He is the co-founder of the Peter Carey Short Story Award, and lives in regional Victoria.
In Shirl, Marshall takes a range of what-if scenarios to their fabulist and comedic extremes. Superbly inventive and powerful, these fourteen stories skewer contemporary Australian society – particularly the crises of masculinity and national identity – in insightful and yet hilarious ways, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. This astounding collection will make you rethink what it means to be Australian.
‘Like the brilliant Ryan O’Neill, Marshall plays with the artificiality of the border of fiction and nonfiction … these are strange and funny stories that often start out close to realism but…
Tickets
Winkler & Marshall event
A$25.00
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