topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In July 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered in Paris to share perspectives on “Foreign Affairs.” Stories included “Madam Interpreter” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear, “A Foreign Affair” by Caro, “A Family Affair” by Nadia, and “DAVE” by Josh  

Olivia was born in Rio de Janeiro in a tropical rainstorm. She swiftly moved to Britain for a childhood filled with drizzle. Since then, she has lived on a volcanic island and in various places across Europe. She works at The News, which she occasionally admits to making up (her […]

When people think of Paris, mythical place names spring to mind: the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Musée d’Orsay, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower. In Imaginary Paris, every street corner has a view of the Eiffel Tower. Imaginary Paris exists in films, in literature, and in other people’s holiday photos. Even the […]

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In September 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered in Paris to share perspectives on “Great Expectations.” Stories included “Great Expectations” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear, “The High Hopes of a Housefly” by Catherine Nicholson and “So, Great Expectations” by James Creedon.  

topic: EVENT medium: TEXT, AUDIO     Stories: “Josefa González Espilco” by Warwick Wise “Freedom” by Helen Percival “El Carcel de amor, or, The Prison of Love*” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear “Freedom” by Catherine Nicholson Two Freedom Poems by Fiona Cameron “Freedom” by Jo and a song: “Run, Run by Flo”    

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Amanda grimaced and scrunched her eyelids ; the words on the page had begun to slide away from each other, on sentence conveyor belts. She read them aloud, to her audience […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! As the first notes of the national anthem piped through the still, warm air she shifted her weight from one foot to the next, an attempt to take the pressure off the balls […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Listen to the Story! As an annually optimistic person – that is to say – I am optimistic in September, every year, and then I go back to being a negative, fatalistic person for the rest of […]