Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 12 April
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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: 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.
Featuring
Mic Looby
Mic Looby is a Melbourne-based muser. He is also a writer and editor for The Age, a columnist for The Big Issue magazine and author of the satirical travel novel Paradise Updated.
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.
He also worked for many years as an editor and author for Lonely Planet Publications, contributing to many guidebooks to South-east Asia and Australia.
He is a regular columnist for The Big Issue magazine and has illustrated five children’s books. His work appears regularly in The Australian, The Age and the Herald Sun.
He lives in Melbourne and his first novel, Paradise Updated, was published in 2009. It was described by Patrick McCaughey in Australian Book Review as the “best rookie novel of the year - like early Waugh: comic with a sense of threat.”
Photograph: James Braund
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.
Michaela McGuire
Michaela McGuire is the Director of the Emerging Writers Festival. She is the author of Last Bets: A true story of gambling, morality, and the law, the Penguin Special A Story of Grief and Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage. Her journalism has appeared in the Monthly, the Saturday Paper and Good Weekend and she has worked as a columnist for the Saturday Age and QWeekend. She co-curates and hosts the bestselling literary salon Women of Letters.
Penny Tangey
Penny Tangey started performing stand up comedy when she won the Victorian final of Triple J’s Raw Comedy Competition in 2001.
Penny was a 2006 recipient of a Brian Macarthy Memorial Award (Moosehead) for her show Kathy Smith Goes to Maths Camp. The Moosehead is an in-kind grant awarded to an innovative proposal for a Melbourne Comedy Festival show.
Her debut book, Loving Richard Feynman (published by UQP in August 2009) is a funny and moving novel about fitting in and growing up. Through secret, unrequited correspondence, Catherine, a science-loving 15-year-old develops a relationship with Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist, who is also dead.
Penny lives in Melbourne.