Join writer, producer, director and performer Maeve Marsden (Queerstories), Irish author Nicola White (A Famished Heart, The Rosary Garden, The Burning Boy) and author Hayley Scrivenor (Dirt Town) as they peel back the psychological layers found in crime fiction. How do family dynamics, thwarted relationships and generational trauma and mistrust play into a dark and compelling crime story? What are the tropes, and how do these writers seek to subvert them?

Maeve Marsden is a writer and theatremaker. She was a 2020 Phillip Parsons fellow at Belvoir St Theatre, and has written, directed and performed in a number of critically acclaimed theatre productions, touring Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Nicola White grew up in Ireland and New York and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. Her novel, In the Rosary Garden, won the Dundee International Book prize and was shortlisted for the 2014 Deanston (now McIlvanny) Prize. Nicola’s crime trilogy is set in Ireland in the 1980s.

Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. Dirt Town is her first novel.

Single tickets are available below. You can also attend this event via a Sunday day pass.