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StorySALOON: Short Stories, Centre Stage
4 November 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEDT

For culture seekers and story lovers, StorySALOON is your mid-week adventure with three brilliant short stories performed live by acclaimed actors and shared through our monthly live events and podcast. Each story, chosen from new and established Australian writers, is crafted to move, illuminate, and entertain.
Bayley Prendergast brings to life ‘Ferocious Animals’ by Luke Johnson, author of Ferocious Animals and Kangaroo Unbound.
Assyrian Australian award-winning writer and performer Monikka Eliah reads her story ‘Zucchini’.
Charlotte Salusinszky performs ‘The Crane Flies’ by Michelle Hamadache, a Sydney based writer, educator and managing editor at Mascara Literary Review.
Hosted by StorySALOON founder and director, Jane Messer.
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