Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 27 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 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
Nick Levey
Nick had his first story published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 6.
He occasionally gets to write the quiz in the Age, and is studying for a PhD. His story “Sue and Joe Chase a Light Hovering above the Treeline is published in Sleepers Almanac, and his music can be found in one record store and an ad for ugg boots.
Catherine Harris
Catherine Harris’ short story collection, Like Being A Wife (Random House), was shortlisted for the 2011 Age Fiction Prize, the 2011 Barbara Jefferis award and as a manuscript for the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Her prose and essays have been published in Australia, Canada, England and the USA.
She won the 2009 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and has since been shortlisted for several national and international awards, including the Fish International Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize. Her novel, The Family Men, is published by Black Inc.
Steph Bowe
Steph Bowe wrote her first novel, Girl Saves Boy, at 14.
She writes a blog called Hey! Teenager of the Year. Despite her book’s themes, she does not condone the theft of garden gnomes.
Barry Divola
Barry Divola is a Sydney-based journalist, columnist and author of Nineteen Seventysomething.
Barry Divola writes for various Australian publications including Rolling Stone, Who and the Sydney Morning Herald. He’s written Fanclub and The Secret Life of Backpackers as well as three childrens books: M is for Metal, Never Mind Your P’s and Q’s: Here’s The Punk Alphabet and The ABC&W: The Country and Western Alphabet. Barry has won the Banjo Paterson Award for short fiction three times.