Debut Mondays

Patrick West writes short fiction, essays and screenplays. He is Senior Lecturer in Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University, Melbourne campus. He and his partner are raising two children.

Patrick was awarded a PhD from The University of Melbourne in 1995. He taught for almost 10 years at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and after spending a year in China (in 1997). He and his partner are raising two children. Patrick’s first short story collection was The World Swimmers. Previously, he has appeared in publications including Best Australian Stories (2006 & 2008), the Penguin Book of the Road, Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, Idiom 23, Antithesis, Going Down Swinging and Southerly. He often reviews for The Weekend Australian, The Australian Literary Review and elsewhere. Delia Falconer calls his “tender” stories “intelligent and haunting”.

Adrienne Ferreira is a poet and short story writer. Her debut novel is Watercolours.

Adrienne lives on the Central Coast with her husband (writer, producer and actor, Rob Carlton) and their twin boys. Born on NSW’s mid-north coast, Adriennce graduated with a BA from the University of Sydney. Watercolours is Adrienne’s first novel and took over 10 years to write.

Peter Barry is an itinerant mongrel. He won the 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel I Hate Martin Amis et al.

Peter is English, French, Irish and a Channel Islander. Born in England, he was brought up in Scotland. He has lived in Edinburgh, London, Paris and Sydney. For the meantime he lives with his wife, and works as a copywriter, in Melbourne.

Peter Dawncy lives in the Dandenong Ranges. He has an Arts Degree with majors in English and Philosophy from Monash University and is currently completing Honours in poetry writing.

For his thesis, Peter is undertaking a study of Philip Hammial’s poetry through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Peter hopes to begin his PhD next year. Peter is interested in a variety of orthodox and unorthodox writing styles and forms, which include sound poems, concrete poems, bucolic poems, romance poems, prose poems and short fiction; his work has appeared in various Australian journals and magazines. Peter is also a playwright. His play The Logue of Thomas P. T. Lawrence was performed at The Arts Centre in June 2010. In 2010 Peter won the Monash poetry prize and came second in the Monash fiction-writing competition.