800 stories

At the desk, Balaclava, since 2019

The odometer on our WordPress dashboard quietly ticked over to 800 stories last week when we published Lucia Nardo’s piece about the song The Other Woman, sung by Caro Emerald.

We would not have reached 800 stories (or 700, 600, 500, 400…) without Lucia and dozens of other contributors over the past ten years; writers who are emerging or established, novices taking a chance with their first piece of writing, people putting their trust in our little world.

Thank you to all of you: Stephen A, Zoe K, David O, Maria M, Damian B, Rijn C, Smokie D, Samantha Lee C, Cher F, DR James, Martina M, Victoria M, Michael L, Kate F and another 250 or so writers.

The stories do not appear on the website automatically, in the blink of an eye. They need to be read, sub-edited, uploaded, previewed. Then YouTube clips need to be sourced and coded. And then everything is checked again. And again.

A huge thank you to Louise Maskell who has quietly been working – unpaid –  in the background, on the dashboard, since 2019. (As well as writing her own stories, and attending most of our gigs; including travelling to Albury last weekend – a 700m km round trip!)