Festival director Miles Merrill and Hani Abdile, one of the guest writers of Story Week. Photos supplied.
Imagine ordering a home delivery, but instead of lukewarm pepperoni pizza, you get a spoken word artist who comes to your door (fully vaccinated, of course), and stands two metres away to perform you their story.
This is just one of the possibilities in Story Week (22-28 November), an annual literary festival in Sydney that happily weds words and live performance, and takes on a hybrid model of in-person and digital events.
Thuy On is Reviews Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the books editor of The Big issue for 8 years. Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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