Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 27 June
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane’s striking debut novel, has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and was the winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards' 2014 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. It’s a gripping story of love, dependence, fear and the end of a life.
Join Fiona for an evening of dinner, drinks and great literary company, as she talks about the inspiration behind her latest work –and her thoughts on its sensational reception - with Melbourne Writers Festival director Lisa Dempster.
Featuring
Lisa Dempster
Lisa Dempster is Executive Manager of Public Participation at Yarra Plenty Regional Library.
Lisa was previously Artistic Director/CEO of Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2017 she presented Jaipur Literature Festival Melbourne as part of AsiaTOPA. Prior to joining MWF, Lisa was Artistic Director/CEO of Emerging Writers’ Festival, and Founding Director of its innovative online programming arm, EWFdigital (now Digital Writers' Festival). In 2012, Lisa undertook an Asialink residency with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali. She is a former Chair of Right Now Inc.
Lisa has travelled widely in search of literary and other adventures. Neon Pilgrim is her first memoir.
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel is The Night Guest. Her short stories have been published in the New Yorker, Zoetrope, Southerly, the Missouri Review and Best Australian Short Stories. She lives in Sydney.
Fiona was born in Sydney, Australia. She completed a BA in English at the University of Sydney and has a PhD in American literature from Cambridge University. She has received grants and residencies from the Australia Council for the Arts, St John’s College Cambridge, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Phillip’s Exeter Academy, and she received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.