Marianna heaves a sigh of relief as the plane descends from the clouds. The winding Seine and the Eiffel Tower come into view and, soon...

2020 has been an extraordinarily cruel year for many families globally. Millions dead - a quarter of a million have died in the United...

SSOA emerging writers were this week asked to write a story using dialogue between just two characters to show character development. Do...

'Great day!' 'Yep. Great weather for ducks. So sunny!' 'Feel like a swim?' 'Sure - why not? 'All we need to do is find a private pool.'...

The quote leaves me wondering ... So many questions: * If a person in a close personal relationship with a Premier refrains from telling...

Responses by SSOA writers to a prompt about when not to listen ... 'I know that I don’t want to know what you’re about to say. You’re...

Does anyone think it’s strange that we humans have to plug into sleep every night to recharge our vitality, otherwise we can’t operate?...

Writings of the Week The prompt for the week was the word 'preposterous'. Wondering why our writers' minds so immediately turned...

Does love only inhabit the allure of its honeymoon trance? Can anyone work it out - to know what union is without a doubt? It seems like...

Jane Fonda is 82 now and gives me the pips! She has announced that she has finally given up plastic surgery - good for her! - and that...

I’ve heard the term 'a non-practising Christian'. I wonder what it means to be something that you are, without actually practising it....

In our meetup writing groups we mostly deal with prose - fiction, non-fiction - stories ranging from memoir to fantasy or sci-fi. But...

THIS WEEK'S WRITING PROMPT: Advice in the time of corona – enjoy your dreams while you live in the moment ADVICE IN THE TIME OF CORONA...

CONNECTING YOU NOW I remember those words so clearly - 'Connecting you now' - as the operator tweaked a few knobs in some far land and...

There may very well be something about Mary ... but so far 2020 has proven to be the most curious, frustrating, unimaginable, dangerous,...

Everyone's tense at some level during the current pandemic, because everyone has her or his own version of frustration and hardship. This...

This week I was seeking a little fun. So I set the following writing prompt for SSOA's writers: 'He showed two salient characteristics:...

A painting by Denmark's Peder Severin Krøyer (1893) is this week's writing prompt One cold July day in London, Carol heard the rain...

We recognise that Burnum Burnum's declaration to the English on 26 January 1988 -which we posted on our SSOA blog last week - deserves...

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following article contains an image of a deceased person. The...