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. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.

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

Featuring: Kathy Charles’s wry love-letter to Los Angeles Hollywood Ending, Mic Looby’s travel-guide inspired Paradise Updated, Michaela McGuire’s humorous memoir Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage and Loving Richard Feynman a tale of a science-loving 15-year-old by Penny Tangey.

Presenters

Kathy Charles

Kathy Charles was born in Melbourne in 1978. She works in the film industry and travels regularly to Los Angeles. Hollywood Ending is her first novel.

Mic Looby

Mic Looby was born in Windsor, NSW, in 1969. He studied journalism in Melbourne and spent several years as a Hong-Kong based illustrator and travel writer.

Michaela McGuire

Michaela McGuire is a columnist for the Sunday Age and writes a blog called Swings and Roundabouts. Originally from Brisbane, she now lives in Melbourne. Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage is her first book.

Penny Tangey

Penny Tangey started performing stand up comedy when she won the Victorian final of Triple J’s Raw Comedy Competition in 2001.