Write Out West Festival: Jen Craig in Conversation at Penrith Regional Gallery

Jen Craig will be in conversation with Toby Chapman, Director of Visual Arts at Penrith Regional Gallery.

The session is best suited for adults. Tickets cost $5 per person. Bookings are essential.

About Jen Craig

Jen Craig is the author of three novels: “Since the Accident” (2009), “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” (2015), and most recently “Wall” (2023), which has been listed both for the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2024 Miles Franklin Award. In 2016, her second novel was longlisted for the Stella Prize. Jen’s body of work features, among many pieces of short fiction and essays that have been published in Australia, North America and Spain, the opera libretto “A Dictionary of Maladies”, for Swiss composer Michael Schneider (Lenzburg Music Festival, 2005). Jen holds a doctorate on transgenerational trauma, writing, anorexia, and the gothic from Western Sydney University.

About Toby Chapman

Toby Chapman is a cultural leader living and working on Dharug and Gundungurra land. He is the Director of Penrith Regional Gallery, where he steers the artistic vision of the oldest regional gallery in western Sydney.

In November, Penrith Regional Gallery will present Spot the Difference, an exhibition examining the origins and retelling of the myth of the elusive big black cat.