A community and information hub for writers
Chapter 3 14/04/2025 20.10 at Guler restaurant for dinner near Istanbul university. The waiter was too friendly and kept making stupid comments about wanted to take me out clubbing! I felt utterly uncomfortable, he kept fist bumping me at every turn around the floor. And when he brought the bill, I realised he charged me…
Chapter 2 13/05/2025 @ Mashhad airport. Waiting for my flight to Istanbul. Chapter 2 is done. I left Sydney on 10/03 and now more than a month has passed. The sequence of events were as follows: My mum and dad, sister, brother, niece and nephew and in laws came with me to the airport to…
Prelude 18/02/2025 Change! What a word. Probably every single person has reached a moment in life that they have thought about it. 19/02/2025 20.40 @ the fortune of war And the change… The moment I made the decision, the journey got started. I was walking on George st, and I felt as if I never…
Conchita Gar’Santiago will be signing books the 19th of March at Gould’s bookshop.
A child’s doll teaches an important lesson about gratitude
What is in a name? That, which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
I have a poem I wrote some time ago for which a friend of mine, composer Heidi Arapa, made beautiful music.
In 2017 I won a short story competition run by Lane Cove magazine The Village Observer
If I came from the right side of town,
Would I be the girl for you