The Grieving Stories
Music and mourning meet in our latest collection, The Grieving Stories. Twenty tributes to mothers, fathers, friends, siblings, teachers, colleagues.
The hard sell
Over seven years close to 150 writers have written a total of nearly 500 stories for this website. All those writers have contributed their skills for free. That's a lot of goodwill.
The highway calls – Albury in September
Thomas Mayo, Jane Caro and Rijn Collins are amongst the guest writers for our concert at Write Around the Murray in Albury on Saturday 13 September.
THE JEAN GENIE by DAVID BOWIE Story by Judy Tait
The Jean Genie played at my first disco, in my first year at university. That’s where I met the boy from Boggabilla. He liked the way I danced. And I liked the way he liked my dancing.
The Jean Genie by David Bowie. Story by Lorraine Pink
Lorraine Pink The Netherlands, 1974Bowie had opened my eyes to the world of art and creativity and the possibility that I could be anything I wanted to be. I could reinvent myself. Suddenly the world was an exciting place.
The joy of being onstage with Stereo Stories
Darren 'Smokie' Dawson Various venues, Victoria, New South Wales, 2015, 2016Never in my wildest dreams did I envisage how my short tale of a doomed teenage relationship would give me such a great rush every time I took to the lectern to share it. At a Stereo Stories show, a writer's words are given greater depth and clarity by the excellent Stereo Stories band.