Memoir Archives

'CAN I MAKE it?' a scary thought crosses my mind as the plane climbs away from Sydney into the...

By Frances Guo

I WAS BORN dead. I didn't breathe. Maybe I didn't want to. Perhaps I was simply over-thinking it. I...

By Marcus Westbury

HULYA'S HEART BELONGED to words. It was the heaviest item she packed when she migrated to Australia as a new...

By Demet Divaroren

MAY 2012: I'm sitting at rehearsal of the Nothing prepared me for this show at La Mama Theatre and mentally I'm...

By Rebecca Lister

Well take her once, take her twice / She can leave you cold as ice Oh my, she is so...

A SWEEP OF reef, two dashing freshwater rivers and a towering mountain, the bay of Apia, on the north...

By Leilani Tamu

I MET HER mother first. Emi was head of the typing pool in a government department where I worked...

By Peter Swain

I'M LIVING AT Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, in an extraordinary brick building designed by the artist Ai Weiwei,...

By Kate Woods

WHILE STILL A squirt, and a year or two before I started going to primary school, I often stood...

By Brian Turner

THERE ARE SO many reasons that, when you look at the metres-long, meaty wound in the side of a...

By Kate Camp

As told to Glenn Busch by Pamela 'Judy' Ross as part of the Christchurch documentary project, Place in Time.COWLISHAW...

By Glenn Busch

I WAS ONLY a child when I faced death for the first time.Aged just two years and four months...

By Kate Forsyth