Edith Lyre

Edith Lyre is an MPhil Researcher at the University of Adelaide. A founding member of the Adelaide Uni Writers’ Group and editor of its associated magazine, Hum, she elects the literary arts as her vehicle to convey the forgotten and the unforeseen – that is to say, the repressed and the negotiably real.

Articles by Edith Lyre:

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020

President Oedipus, or the democratisation of schizophrenia

Edith Lyre

Edith, please don’t call it that anymore. Accelerationism has stopped being the focus of the group. He’s in a group-chat right now, he messages, where they’re organising a new name for the meetings. Witch-House Social Club is winning. Accelerationism’s not an okay thing to believe. The Metro cancelled us. (Their cancellation took form in an article, published 18 March, carrying the title: What is ‘Accelerationism’, the belief followed by the New Zealand terror attacker?) We’re just a club for people who like witch-house.