#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Is pop as valid as classical music? Are those who ignore commercial fiction and non-fiction snobs? Can literature emerge from the pressing need to eat? This panel will look at the pressure to produce commercial work.
#Artist
Peggy Frew
Peggy Frew’s work has appeared in New Australian Stories 2, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, and The Big Issue. Islands is her third novel. Her first, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Hope Farm, her second, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.









