Sunday Stories November

Sunday Stories is a new evening of live storytelling featuring some of Australia's best fiction writers. On the last Sunday of each month, we invite you to slow down, sit down, and enter the fictional worlds of our featured authors.

Each session will feature three authors across various stages in their careers reading from new or existing works.

We are thrilled to welcome the incredible Chris Ames, Romy Ash & Paddy O'Reilly to the storyteller's chair in November.

This will be our last event for 2026. We will return in January, 2027.

Please note: This event is held upstairs. No lift access is available.

All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards paying artists.

Chris Ames

Chris Ames is a writer from California. His work has featured in The Guardian, The Monthly, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. His debut collection of fiction, I Made This Just for You, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and is out now with Ultimo Press.

Romy Ash

Romy Ash is the author of Floundering, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Commonwealth Book Prize and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; and a children’s picture book called As Bright as a Rainbow. She was named one of Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year in 2013. Her work has been published in the Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Best Australian Short Stories, Best Australian Essays, among others. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne with her family.

Paddy O'Reilly

Paddy O’Reilly is the author of four novels, including the recently released Other Houses, and two collections of short stories. Her work has been published in ANZ, the UK and Ireland, USA, Europe and China. She has won a number of fiction awards and her books have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Queensland and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, as well as being nominated many times in best books of the year lists. She has also written for stage, radio and film.

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