Fiona Kelly McGregor

Fiona Kelly McGregor is a Sydney writer and artist. She has published seven books, most recently the essay collection Buried not dead (Giramondo, 2021). Her latest novel Indelible Ink won Age Book of the Year. McGregor’s essays, articles and reviews appear in a variety of publications including The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Meanjin, Running Dog, and Overland. Her photoessay A Novel Idea, a tongue-in-cheek documentation of novel-writing through the rubric of endurance performance, was published in 2019.
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Desk Work: A Novel Idea by Fiona McGregor
The work of a novelist is hard, menial and often dull work. Despite this, the work of a novelist at least cuts against the dominant temporalities of work. Through a queer commitment to craft, and by showing us this process in A Novel Idea, McGregor gets us to think harder about what drudgery means, not only for her and her work, or even artists and cultural workers more generally, but for any life and any work.