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
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 -
On The Page
'Valiant Dust' – Prema Arasu
Valiant Dust is set in the fictional city-state of Morgancast, an East-Asian inspired port city somewhat based on Hong Kong and Singapore under British Rule.
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On The Table
Prema Arasu
"During my Fellowship I started running the SFF Collective...I’ve found that the SFF writing and fan community is quite separate from the general writing community and feel like the SFF Collective bridges that gap in many ways."Read More -
Rule Breakers
Dr Laura Machuca Suarez
'In Colombia it matters whose daughter you are. I'm not the daughter of a rich mother and father. The way it goes traditionally in my home country is that it is expected for a woman to get married and stay at home raising a family, totally depending on their husbands financially.'Read More -
Rule Breakers
Prof Sonya Girdler
'At this stage in my life I was a little bit skeptical as the rest of the world seemed to be telling me that my options were maybe to marry the minister's son or even better the son of the farmer next door because that would extend the family farming empire. I used to think that they were my viable options in life.'Read More -
Rule Breakers
Dr Brioni Moore
"Within 15 minutes, the environment was completely different. The car park was empty. It was silent. There was not a single person around. The airport doors were closed and I was standing there all on my own. I had no telephone. I had no way of contacting my colleague. I was in a foreign country, in a place that I didn't know. I didn't know where to go and I just didn't know what to do."Read More