Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 24 October
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.
Let Debut Mondays be your guide to the best of new local writing. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
This month we welcome:
Jessica Au, Cargo
Peggy Frew, House of Sticks
Eamon Evans, The Godfather Was a Girl
Michael Richardson, ‘Of Mortal Men and Finite Space’, Voiceworks
Featuring
Michael Richardson
Michael lives in Sydney and is completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. He’s an editor of Honi Soit, the university’s weekly student newspaper, and he’s written for Voiceworks for several issues.
Peggy Frew
Peggy Frew's first novel, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Hope Farm, her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
She has been published in New Australian Stories 2, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin and the Big Issue. Peggy is also a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. Islands is her third novel.
Eamon Evans
Eamon Evans is a former radio host and freelance writer who has written for ArtsHub, SBS, iLove, 64, Vibewire, Stanza, Lot’s Wife and the Australian Book Review. His non-fiction book, The Godfather was a Girl, was published by Hardie Grant in July 2011.