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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On The Table
Emily Sun
"The nature of the Hot Desk—‘Inclusion Matters’—also gave me the opportunity to reflect upon exclusion, and the ways in which I have tempered my voice in certain spaces, and how tiresome constant reflexivity is."Read More -
On The Table
Alexander Te Pohe
"I realised that as a settler (i.e. someone who is not Indigenous to the land currently known as Australia) it is not for me to write the future of this land."Read More -
On The Table
Kaya Ortiz
"I had all these poems about racial and cultural identity, diaspora and the struggle to belong. The sort of thing I’ve been writing about for a couple of years now. But I’d felt this urge for a while to move beyond that, or to expand on those themes in a different way."Read More -
Side Walks 2019
Taking Up Space
Mani Gomes, Lisa Longman and Shenali Perera from The Young Boxing Woman Project weave personal stories with socio-political commentary to discuss the practice of claiming space.Read More -
Side Walks 2019
The Making of Me
Together with Sisonke Msimang, Ron Bradfield Jr draws upon cultural notions important to Bardi peoples to explore how a collision of cultures shaped his journey into manhood.Read More -
Side Walks 2019
The Book That Changed My Life
Tinashe Jakwa, Alicia Tuckerman, and Raphael Farmer discuss the pivotal books of their lives.Read More -
Special Conversations
In Conversation – Perth's Oldest and Youngest Climate Activists
Les Harrison and Reuben Saggar talk climate activism, collective action, and hopes for the future.Read More -
Singapore Hot Takes
Ng Yi-Sheng
"I think it’s my hunger for approbation that’s driven me to continue writing to this day."Read More -
Special Conversations
In Conversation - Roanna Gonsalves and Chris Lin
Roanna Gonsalves and Chris Lin share a conversation around writing practice, difficulties encountered in the literary world, and what it means to write about tolerance and intolerance while breaking out of the dominant narrative.Read More