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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Hear Peggy Frew talk about Islands, her exciting new novel following a family after fifteen-year-old daughter Anna goes missing. A portrait of a family in crisis, Islands examines what happens when the lost don’t come back.
#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 Her first, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing.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.
#Moderator
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.
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