Selling Fast
#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.
#Artists
John Birmingham
John Birmingham's first book was He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. His latest series is the sci-fi epic The Cruel Stars.
Nicholas Carah
Nicholas Carah is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts and the Director of the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub at UQ. His research examines the algorithmic, promotional and participatory cultures of digital media platforms. He is currently a Chief Investigator on ARC projects examining machine vision, digital media and advertising, and Associate Investigator in the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Carah is the author of Media and Society: Power, Platforms and Participation (2021), Brand Machines, Sensory Media and Calculative Culture (2016) and Pop Brands: Branding, Popular Music and Young People (2010). In 2020 he was awarded the UQ Award for Teaching Excellence.
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 Her first, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing.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.
#Moderator
Stefan Treyvaud
Stefan Treyvaud has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in the arts, cultural and lifestyle sectors including senior marketing and communications roles with QPAC, Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland Music Festival and State Library Queensland.
As a writer and content producer, he has made significant contributions to World Science Festival Brisbane, Melbourne Writers Festival, University of Melbourne Ideas Festival, Melbourne Festival and White Night Melbourne.
Prior to his foray into the arts, Stefan wrote for the Courier Mail’s Books Art and Music lift out and was Editor of Brisbane’s hugely successful map magazine.
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