Yarn: Stories spun in Brisbane is a bi-monthly storytelling event, featuring true stories, told live and without notes. Held in bars, cafes, and homes around Brisbane: come to share stories, hear stories, and connect through story. All tellers and all listeners welcome.
To launch our brand new website proper, we've invited some of our favourite Brisbane authors who were published in 2011 to respond to one another's work in the manner of a chain letter.
Latest posts
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Book Review
Bronte reads Electricity for Beginners by Michelle Dicinoski
But for now, it's night, and there's just
the torchlight, and the radio voices
and the raising things up, the lifting that is like belief:
the best that we can do
but never high enough. -
Visitor Post
Michelle Dicinoski's response to The Casuals by Sally Breen
The future happened for Lisa more quickly than it did for me. She left school at sixteen and procured, in quick succession, a job, a car, and a boyfriend. A couple of years later, I finished grade twelve and moved…
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Book Review
Samuel reads The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
The book is classically 'feminine': in counterpoint to the masculine, mono-directional book The Orchard opens up into three loosely connected stories bracketed by the gardens of the swan-necked Ettie, …
Book club
The Art of Fielding
In The Art of Fielding, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College are all they have left. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream - and theirs, vicariously - alive, until a routine throw goes astray.
Meet & discuss
- When
- 6:30PM Wednesday May 30 2012
- Where
- The Scratch, Milton
Stilts Journal
The Stilts Journal is a bi-annual collection of themed writing
from Brisbane voices. We publish our journals in print and
online.
We are currently accepting submissions for our next
issue, The Stilts Handbook of Adventure.
Read all
about the submission guidelines here.
Donation Jar
Stilts would love your cash monies.
Calendar
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21 May
Avid Salon: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Avid Reader, West End
- 31 May
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2 Jun
So, You Want to Be A Writer State Library of Queensland