Fiona Wright

Your dream home awaits – there’s only two things in your way… The great Australian dream is slipping out of reach for Keira and her friends. No partner, no house, no kids. At 30-ahem, she is still languishing in a mould-filled share house, with an unexplained and ever-growing hole in the floorboards that threatens to consume her and her housemates....

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize The follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance, winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for Non-fiction. Our bodies and homes...

Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describe the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright, a highly regarded poet and critic, provides an account of her illness that is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions....

This is a first collection of poetry by award-winning young Sydney poet, poetry activist and editor Fiona Wright. As the title suggests, the poems in Knuckled are themselves bony and assertive, stripped down to the essential details, which appeal in their physical quality and the manner in which they are offered, as much as in their compression of feeling.

Many of the poems in Domestic Interior were written around the same time as Fiona Wright's award-winning collection of essays Small Acts of Disappearance. They share with that work her acute sensitivity to the details that build our everyday world and hold us in thrall, in highly charged moments of emotional extremity. Anxiety lurks in domestic spaces; it inhabits the...