Debut Mondays

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).

Her fiction has also appeared in the Paris-based Upstairs at Duroc. Her memoir piece about her experience as a relief worker in Chad (where she met her husband Francois) is a chapter in the Orbis Books/Earthscan anthology Another Day in Paradise. Her 2006 Christmas Eve article in The Philadelphia Inquirer won ByLine Magazine’s 2006 Inspirational Article competition.

In Australia, Christine has freelanced for several publications including Melbourne’s Child, Business Franchise Magazine, DANCEtrain and WARCRY. The Age published her article on Tatura’s WWII internment camps in the Historic Victoria section and her work has also appeared in Sunday Life Magazine. She is completing her diploma in Creative Writing and Editing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

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.

He won the final of The Age, Melbourne Writers’ Festival Poetry Idol, a popular competition that has heats throughout the year and over two hundred entrants.

His first book of poetry, Dancing in the Lifeboat was launched in 2009 at the Australian Poetry Centre. Among other things, it looks at global warming, the plight of refugees, art, cakes and the fruit-loopy kookiness of consumerism.

He is a featured poet in the ABC TV series, Bush Slam.

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 is a prize-winning philosopher and writer. He is the author of ten books in English and translation, including The Art of Reading, How to Think About Exercise, Philosophy in the Garden and Distraction. Young is also the author of several popular children’s books, including My Brother is a Beast and My Sister is a Superhero.