Trish Bolton

Trish Bolton’s debut novel, Whenever You’re Ready, is published by Allen & Unwin. She has been a media adviser to the federal leader of a political party, and, in the past, lectured in Media and Communications at Swinburne University.

Trish Bolton's recent articles

OK Boomers not so okay

OK Boomers not so okay

I was born in 1954, a year after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. That makes me 71. It also makes me a baby Boomer, part of an ageing population, that, like Charles and Camilla, is increasingly seen as both irrelevant and privileged. Not to mention a burden on the public purse.

Writers bearing witness in a time of genocide

Writers bearing witness in a time of genocide

I’ve been thinking a lot about an honours thesis I wrote more than 20 years ago, that thing you sweated through, that maybe your mother skimmed, that you stuck in the back of a cupboard somewhere never to be read or thought of again.