True and Tall Tales

Saturday 7 April 2012 2:05AM

At a time when attention spans are supposed to be shrinking, there seems to be a huge appetite for the richer, slower form of entertainment that is storytelling.

Storytelling events, inspired by The Moth in the US, are increasing in popularity in Australia and around the world. Storytelling nights invoke that feeling of sitting on the front porch, taking turns to tell your funniest, saddest and weirdest anecdote.

True and Tall Tales is a collection of these stories, told in different venues around the country.

The storytellers are:

1. Peter J. Casey
2. Christine Gascoyne
3. Thomas Nelson
4. Karen Hitchcock (author of Little White Slips)
5. Rachel DeWoskin (author of Foreign Babes of Beijing)
6. Bo Svoronis
7. Antonia Hayes
8. Richard Van Camp (author of The Lesser Blessed)

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