The first event ever to run at the Wheeler Centre was a Debut Mondays session, and two years on, we’re just as committed to fostering new talent.
Whether it’s meeting Australian literature’s newest wunderkind or hearing a known quantity strike a bold new path, Debut Mondays is your chance to discover some great new writing. This year Debut Mondays has moved to the Wheeler Centre’s new cafe/ bar /restaurant, The MOAT. So pop in, grab a drink and enjoy the stories.
If you plan on making a night out of it, The MOAT offers a pre-event package from 5pm to 6pm: $20 for a meal and a glass of wine. Bookings essential; call (03) 9094 7820 or email info@themoat.com.au.
With Amy Espeseth, Courtney Collins, Amy Choi and Broede Carmody (Voiceworks).
Featuring
Courtney Collins
Courtney Collins' debut novel is The Burial. Her second novel, The Walkman Mix, is a work in progress. An early draft of The Walkman Mix was shortlisted for the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award 2011.
Both Courtney’s novels are inspired by the Australian landscape and ideas on the Australian Gothic. The Burial has been described as, ‘A dark, swooning upgrade of the Australian gothic genre'.
Courtney grew up in the Hunter Valley in NSW. She now lives happily, untidily, productively, with a bunch of artists on the Goulburn River in regional Victoria.
Courtney blogs on books and writing for ABC Arts online.
Amy Espeseth
Amy Espeseth’s first novel, Sufficient Grace, was awarded the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2009 and was published by Scribe in September 2012. An extract from her second novel, Trouble Telling the Weather, won the QUT Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize in 2010.
Amy was born in rural Wisconsin in 1974 and immigrated to Australia in 1998. She holds a MA in creative writing from the University of Melbourne, where she is a sessional tutor and PhD student. Her fiction has appeared in various journals, and she received the Felix Meyer Award for Literature in 2007.
Amy is the publisher at Vignette Press. Continuing Vignette’s sub-cultural journal series (including Sex Mook and Death Mook), Geek Mook was launched in late 2011. She lives in Footscray.
Amy Choi
Amy Choi was born in Melbourne in 1975. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Quadrant, the Age and the Australian, as well as anthologies including The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays and Growing Up Asian in Australia.
She has worked as a counter hand, in customer service, as an usher, foster carer, freelance writer and columnist. For three years she wrote a small, weekly column about op shops for the Age.
She has also written a primary school chapter book, Under the Tiles, published by Macmillan Education Australia. She lives in country Victoria with her partner and their two children.
Broede Carmody
Broede Carmody is 19 and currently studying journalism at RMIT University. He is on the Voiceworks editorial committee and has had poetry published in a variety of literary journals.
In 2010 he was one of the teen judges for the Inky Awards and this year he is a judge for the Write Across Victoria competition. He is also working on a novel.