Get neurospicy with The Bachelorette's Osher Günsberg and Kill Your Boomers author Fiona Wright

Two neurospicy minds talk neurodiversity, creativity, and what it's like to get a diagnosis like Autism or OCD as an adult. Can it bring clarity, upheaval, grief, or all of the above? And how can writing about it help? Host of The Bachelor and Bachelorette, podcaster, and mental health advocate Osher Günsberg and poet, essayist, editor and author of Kill Your Boomers Fiona Wright join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell. This event was held at the 2026 Byron Writers Festival on Bundjalung Nation Country.

Speakers

Osher Gunsberg

Host of TV shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and of the Better Than Yesterday podcast.

Author of Back, After the Break (2018).

Co-author of So What? Now What?: How to Stop Being Stuck and Start Living (2026) with illustrator Campbell Walker aka Struthless.

Fiona Wright

Poet, writer, editor

2024 Judy Harris Writer in Residence, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney

Author, Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger (2015); Kill Your Boomers (2026), and contributor to the Someone Like Me anthology of autistic writers.

I was unseen even to myself: as many as half of people with anorexia are autistic (Fiona Wright in The Conversation, 2026)