Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 21 October
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Our first ever event was a Debut Monday. Three years on, it’s still going strong, introducing new Australian talent each month.
Whether it’s meeting Australia’s latest wunderkind or hearing an unknown quantity strike a bold new path, Debut Mondays is your chance to discover your next favourite author.
You’ll meet a selection of new voices – from Victoria and beyond – including a special guest in each session from Voiceworks magazine.
Pop down to the MOAT, our resident bar and cafe, to grab a drink or a meal – and be nourished and entertained by the pick of our latest storytelling crop.
This month, our guests are Greg Foyster, Eleanor Limprecht, Maria Takolander and Michelle Li.
Featuring
Eleanor Limprecht
Eleanor Limprecht is a novelist, book reviewer, PhD student and mother-of-two. She grew up in the United States, Germany and Pakistan but has settled in Sydney. Her first novel, What Was Left, is about a mother who breaks one of the oldest taboos and abandons her baby.
Eleanor is currently working on a historical novel about a young pregnant woman who was imprisoned in Long Bay Gaol in Sydney in 1909 for manslaughter, after performing a faulty abortion that killed another woman. She is slightly obsessed with mothers who are vilified by society and the topics of abandonment, parenthood and identity.
Greg Foyster
Greg Foyster is an environment journalist. His feature articles, news stories and opinion pieces have appeared in more than 15 different publications, including the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Big Issue,Crikey and G Magazine. His first book, Changing Gears, is about a 6500 kilometre cycling journey exploring simple and sustainable living.
Greg is a graduate of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing course and was a finalist for student journalist of the year from the Walkley Foundation. Before becoming a journalist, he was an award-winning copywriter for advertising agencies.
Michelle Li
Michelle Li is a young Melbourne-based writer. She is a fiction editor at Voiceworks, creative subeditor at Lot’s Wife and editor of a medical student publication.
Her work has been published online and in print, including an anthology by Penguin, and she was a recipient of the inaugural Monash Prize.
Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander was born in Melbourne in 1973 to Finnish parents. She is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award ...