Home Author
Author

Ben Brooker

Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, critic, playwright, essayist, and bookseller. His work has been featured by Overland, New Matilda, New Internationalist, Australian Book Review, RealTime, The Lifted Brow, and Daily Review. His most recently produced work for the stage was the dystopian triptych This Storm (2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival). He is a co-facilitator of Adelaide’s Quart Short literary reading salons and in 2016-17 was an inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellow.

  • Dance as shamanic delirium

    by Ben Brooker

    ‘Perhaps we, like Rianto, await our own metamorphoses’: Ben Brooker on Rianto’s Medium at Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art in Sydney

    Read more

  • Bleeding in the dark

    by Ben Brooker

    The recent restructure of Arts South Australia and budget cuts of $31m have thrown the state’s arts sector into chaos. Ben Brooker reports

    Read more

  • The epic sweep of politics

    by Ben Brooker

    ‘As good a production of this play as you could want to see’: Ben Brooker on the revival of Stephen Sewell’s Welcome the Bright World at the STCSA

    Read more

Thank you for reading Witness

We hope you're enjoying the site! Help us to be more than a year-long quixotic experiment by becoming a Witness supporter. You can help to make Witness sustainable for as little as $5 a month, or become a full supporter for $10. You earn the right to patronise us for $15 a month. If you're already a Witness supporter, our earnest thanks. You can login here.
Holler Box