Peggy Frew's fiction is startling and evocative. Her first novel, House of Sticks (2011), won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Hope Farm (2015), her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Islands (2019) is her third novel.

Her short works have been published in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin and The Big Issue. In 2008, her short story 'Home Visit' won The Age Short Story Award.

Peggy is also a member of the-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. 

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