The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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Artist

Tara Kenny

Tara Kenny is a freelance arts and culture writer and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne. She’s the television critic for The Monthly and has also written for The Guardian, Interview, i-D, Dazed, V, Daily Dot, Dirt, Liminal, The Saturday Paper, The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald, Frankie, The Paris End, Overland and numerous others. High brow analysis of low brow culture and how women use and are portrayed in the media are recurring fixations in her work.

Friday 12 September, 10AM-11:30AM

Chronicling Cultural Trash

How can we critically illuminate our current cultural moment by unearthing “low brow” culture, such as reality TV, AI slop, TikTok trends, tabloid drama, YouTube conspiracies and internet detritus?