Debut Mondays

Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next.

Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.

Featuring: Poetry Slam champ Ezra Bix’s Dancing in the Lifeboat, Christine Darcas’s debut novel Dancing in High Heels Backwards, Alzheimer’s, A Love Story by prize-winning short story writer Vivienne Ulman and Damon Young’s Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free.

Presenters

Ezra Bix

In the last two years Ezra has won regional heats and the Victorian state final of the Australian Poetry Slam and has come third and second in the national final at the Sydney Opera House.

Christine Darcas

Christine Darcas has had fiction and non-fiction published in the US, Australia and elsewhere overseas. In the US, her short stories have been published in the Vermont Literary Review, THEMA, Potpourri, and the now-defunct Belletrist Review (which nominated that story for a Pushcart Prize).

Vivienne Ulman

Vivienne Ulman is a prize-winning short-story writer, a freelance journalist, and book reviewer. She divides her time between rural Tasmania and urban Melbourne.

Damon Young

Damon Young is an Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and the author of essays, fiction and poetry. He has lectured in European philosophy, literature and globalisation.