Creativity versus identity

News flash: At least two young, female, ‘non-white’ aspiring writers did not like Lionel Shriver’s opening address to the Brisbane Writer’s Festival. No prizes for guessing what got them all browned off.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied walked out of what she describes as Shriver’s ‘celebration of the unfettered exploitation of the experiences of others, under the guise of fiction.’