Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 23 September
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 Fiona McFarlane, Adam Browne, Kirsten Krauth and Emily Prince.
Featuring
Emily Prince
Emily Prince enjoys wordplay, procrastination and reading for pure comfort, in that order.
At other times, she scrapes through a Masters degree in Information Studies that is infinitely more sensible than the Writing and Literature degree she wishes she was doing instead.
Adam Browne
Adam Browne was born in 1963 and lives in Melbourne, Australia with his daughter, Harriet. His stories have been published widely. Pyrotechnicon: Being a True Account of Cyrano De Bergarac’s Further Adventures Among the States and Empires of the Stars, by Himself (dec’d) is his first novel.
He received the Aurealis Award for best Australian short story in 2002, and the Chronos Award for best Victorian short story in 2009. His story ‘Space Operetta’ was adapted as an animated film, Adjustable Cosmos, in 2010. His illustrations have been exhibited in Australian galleries, and are sold as prints at venues in Melbourne.
Adam’s collection of stories titled ‘Other Stories’ and Other Stories will be published later this year. He is currently working on a second novel and a book of illustrations inspired by the revelations of a 19th Century religious visionary named Jakob Lorber.
Kirsten Krauth
Kirsten Krauth is a writer and podcaster based in Castlemaine. Her second novel Almost a Mirror, published in 2020, was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and named by The Guardian in ’The Best 20 Australian Books of 2020’. Her Almost a Mirror podcast series, inspired by the '80s pop and post-punk songs in her book, was released in September 2021, hitting #2 on the Australian Apple Music Podcast charts. A mash up of documentary and fiction, she is collaborating with musicians like Amanda Brown and Adalita on a soundtrack to the podcast.
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel is The Night Guest. Her short stories have been published in the New Yorker, Zoetrope, Southerly, the Missouri Review and Best Australian Short Stories. She lives in Sydney.
Fiona was born in Sydney, Australia. She completed a BA in English at the University of Sydney and has a PhD in American literature from Cambridge University. She has received grants and residencies from the Australia Council for the Arts, St John’s College Cambridge, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Phillip’s Exeter Academy, and she received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.