Debut Mondays
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:
Michelle Aung Thin, The Monsoon Bride
Raeden Richardson, ‘Clay’, Voiceworks
Sharell Cook, Henna for the Broken-Hearted
Irma Gold, Two Steps Forward
Featuring
Raeden is a sixteen year old Melbourne writer who enjoys traversing the tapestry of creativity in literature or on the sides of metropolitan trains. Raeden hopes to write something unforgettable – fiction laced in hope that inspires. In the meantime, he’ll write simply to please himself. ... Read more
Michelle Aung Thin was born in Rangoon, Burma, grew up in Canada, and currently teaches in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is the author of several novels set in Burma. Michelle was the first Asialink resident to Myanmar in 2014 (funded by Arts Victoria)... Read more
Sharell Cook is a travel writer and author. Her first book, Henna for the Broken-Hearted, has just been published by Pan Macmillan. Sharell was born and brought up in country Victoria. She studied business and worked for ten years in Melbourne, in the accounting and finance sector of the Victorian g... Read more
Irma Gold is a writer and editor based in Canberra.
Irma is the author of two children’s books and has been published widely in Australian literary journals. Two Steps Forward is her debut collection of stories.
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