Debut Mondays

Jon Bauer is originally from Surrey, England, but has been a permanent resident in Australia under a Distinguished Talent visa since 2009.

Jon is the author of short stories and plays for stage and radio. His work has been broadcast on national radio; performed at Melbourne’s Arts Centre; featured in The Daily Telegraph UK; Sleepers Almanac; Torpedo Literary Journal, and he’s had repeated success in The Bridport Prize – the world’s largest open writing competition.

His first novel, Rocks in the Belly, will be published in August by Scribe.

Joel Deane is a poet, speechwriter and now a novelist.

Joel Deane is the author of two books of poetry, Subterranean RadioSongs and Magisterium, which was a finalist for the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature. He has worked as a journalist and, most recently, as chief speech-writer for Victorian Premiers John Brumby and Steve Bracks. His debut novel is The Norseman’s Song.

Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne writer of stories both real and imagined.

She has been a staff writer for The Age and Melbourne Times. Since taking up fiction and creative non-fiction in 2005, she has published in everything from photocopied zines to Australia’s leading journals and anthologies. Jenny both studies and teaches writing at the University of Melbourne.

Her non-fiction book When We Think About Melbourne: The Imagination of a City is a personal survey of Melbourne through its art and fiction. It will published by Affirm Press in August.

Kent MacCarter is widely published poet originally from the USA.

Kent MacCarter, an expatriate of Minnesota, Montana and New Mexico, is now a permanent resident in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two cats. Answering the question, “Where are you from?” is always a difficult one for him.

In the Hungry Middle of Here is first collection of poetry, published by Transit Lounge Press. It is a book that navigates the world, seeking the sounds, textures and tastes that characterise its parts. The collection features poems that have previously appeared in variety of magazines and newspapers, including The Age, Meanjin, Wet Ink, Canberra Times and Best Australian Poems 2009.