What's Your Story?

Closes on 17 May 2010

What touches you? What moment changed your life?

Our call out for your stories was inspired by novelist Paul Auster and his USA's national Story Project, where radio station listeners were asked to send in their own stories about small, turning-point moments in their lives to be read on the airwaves. The stories poured in and covered a range of topics as multi-faceted as the human spirit; AIDS; alcoholism; World War II and a mother's missing wedding ring. The stories each left an indelible impression.

In Festival 2010 the Festival called out for your stories, which you can read here on the website. Inspirational author Michael Morpurgo started us off with a new short story which you can see here.

Note: In sending us your story, you are giving us permission to publish it on the website, read it on air and you may even find that we are telling it was read during our Noontime Stories, running every day of the 2010 Festival.

'I am delighted to be involved with the Salisbury Festival and their inspiring storytelling theme. The reasons writers write are various and personal, but I live the idea of writing about a significant turning point in life. For me, there have been many, many that have inspired my books and writing, and sparked off the weaving together of the story in my head that always begins my storytelling journey.'

Michael Morpurgo

Click here to read the stories by Michael Morpurgo and Paul Auster

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