Centre for Stories
Stories
Stories are at the heart of what we do. The aim of our story archive is to make good stories available to a wide audience in the hope of strengthening connections between people and encouraging a more inclusive and informed community.
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Backstories 2020
Shenali Perera
Born in Sri Lanka, Shenali grew up in the suburbs of Gosnells and Southern River, and remembers a time when her life in Australia stretched only as far as the Carousel Shopping Centre and Gosnells Library.Read More -
Backstories 2020
Sandi Parsons
"Despite society’s expectations, which disabled me far more than my body did, I have outlived my expiry date many times over." Sandi shares her story of her battle with Cystic Fibrosis.Read More -
Backstories 2020
Ron Bradfield
Ron shares the story of a West Australian and a Victorian – an unlikely friendship and its impact across a lifetime.Read More -
Backstories 2020
Holden Sheppard
“When I realised I was attracted to blokes, I found it impossibly out of sync with every aspect of my identity as a man.” Holden takes us from Geraldton to Europe and back again, with much to say in between.Read More -
Backstories 2020
Saadia Ahmed
According to Saadia, in Pakistan a student has three options for their future: to become either a doctor, an engineer, or a disappointment. Her story is one of hope, passion, and picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and getting on with it.Read More -
Backstories 2020
Colin Archibald
‘I’m fifteen years of age and I turn to my mother and say, “I wish I was white.”’ Colin shares his experience of growing up in 1980s London as a young black man.Read More -
On The Table
Rafeif Ismail
"The Centre is the first literary space I recommend for any emerging writer I meet in Boorloo, or elsewhere in WA. The support and confidence I gained from the Centre has been instrumental to my growth as a young creative."Read More -
On The Page
'Poems of Sex and Culture' – Patrick Gunasekera
Patrick Gunasekera is a queercrip Sinhala interdisciplinary artist based in the Whadjuk region of the Noongar nation, disrupting white and settler epistemologies of art through writing, visual media, performance-making and advocacy.Read More -
On The Table
Patrick Gunasekera
"There was a lot to think about, I remember telling people again and again how daunting it was to be adding my twenty-year-old voice to a millennia old discourse, especially around conversations about faith."Read More