The death cap mushroom. Photo: George Chernilevsky, Wiki Commons.
As reported in our sister publication,ScreenHub, Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial is currently being adapted for the screen in a new ABC series to be called Toxic. As ScreenHub‘s writer Silvi Vann-Wall says, the collaboration between screenwriter Elise McCredi and creator Tony Ayres “promises to ‘go beyond’ the tabloid headlines on the Mushroom Murder Trial“.
“True stories ask storytellers to probe the complexities of human behaviour,” says Ayres. ‘It’s both a challenge and a responsibility to go beyond the surface – to reveal, not just sensationalise.”
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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