Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 21 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Every month four first-time authors read from their work.
Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
Featuring
George Ivanoff
George is a Melbourne based author and stay-at-home dad. He has been writing for the primary school education market for over ten years, producing over 50 school readers, chapter books and non-fiction books.
He has also written many short stories and articles for magazines and anthologies — most recently, his story Trees appeared in the Black Dog Books charity anthology Short and Scary. Gamers’ Quest (Ford Street Publishing) is his debut novel. It’s a teen, science fiction, adventure set within a computer game world. It won a 2010 Chronos Award for speculative fiction by a Victorian writer. The sequel, Gamers’ Challenge, will be published late 2011. Now that he’s had a taste of novel writing, he’s itching to get going on the next one. He shares a house with one wife, two daughters and numerous goldfish, and he eats way too much chocolate.
Krystin Low
Krystin is particularly interested in the short story form, meta-fiction and creative non-fiction, and themes relating to identity, family and place.
It took approximately 48 hours to edit this list, but some of her favourite writers include Alain de Botton, Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, Michael Ondaatje and Tim Winton. She may be ever so slightly compulsive in her creation of acronyms, use of Twitter and hoarding of almost anything. Somehow, she ended up as a lawyer in her day job, though she one day hopes to travel and write and y’know, make the world a better place.
Angela Smith
Angela Smith’s first poetry collection The Geometry of Flight (Pulse Publications) has been described by poet Bruce Dawe as ‘free verse at its finest’.
Her work has been published widely in literary journals and broadcast on radio. It has featured on Melbourne trains and screened at Federation Square during the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. She was awarded two Young Adult Fiction Residencies at Varuna, The Writers’ House.
Angela’s poetry explores inner worlds of memory, love and longing as well as the physical landscape. A sequence in The Geometry of Flight reflects on her experience of cancer.
Angela lives in Melbourne.