Or It Didn't Happen

Episode art by Fionn McCabe. Links missing in your podcast app? Find out more on our showpage: http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#family Featuring stories written and read by Eileen Chong, Yarie Bangura, Meg O’Shea, Peter Wu, Matt Hyunh, Faith Chaza, and Fionn McCabe. MIDAUTUMN MOONCAKES — Eileen Chong Midautumn Mooncakes is from Eileen's poetry collection Uncommon Feast. It was performed at the event Uncommon Feast at Ashfield Town Hall, organised by Sheila Pham. Find more of Eileen's work at her website. SIRA — Yarie Bangura Yarie Bangura is a storyteller and entrepreneur. She also sells Aunty's Ginger Tonic, which you can find on Facebook. This story was performed at Parliament on King, a cafe and social enterprise on Sydney's south King Street. Visit them in real life, or online. DOG — Meg O'Shea You can read the original Dog comic here, or buy it as a zine. More of Meg's work is on Tumblr and Instagram. MAMA LINH'S FAMILY BUSINESS — Matt Huynh & Peter Wu, read by Peter Wu Mama Linh's Family Busi

Featuring stories written and read by Bailey Sharp, Frances An, Courtney Thompson, Anna Martin, and Mira Schlosberg. Links missing in your podcast app? Find them on our show page at http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#allthebodies Episode art by Bailey Sharp. THAT BIG REPORT — BAILEY SHARP Bailey Sharp is a cartoonist, and co-art editor of the Lifted Brow. Find more of her work on Instagram. You can buy That Big Report in its original comic form — or her other work — at her store. That Big Report was originally read at Read to Me, a comics reading night in Sydney. Find it on Facebook. The next Sydney event is in September. LỖ — FRANCES AN Frances An is a writer, and a member of the Finishing School Collective. You can find out more about both on the Finishing School website. Lỗ was originally published in Seizure, and you can read it there. Thanks also to Felicity Castagna. Zelda Music cues in Lỗ: Koriko Village Them

Featuring stories written and read by Nancy Li, Georgia Manuela Delgado, Shareeka Helaluddin (AKKA), Victoria Manifold, Zacha Rosen, and Samuel Luke. Links missing in your podcast app? Try our show site: http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#ghosts SUTHERLAND — Nancy Li Nancy Li is a Sydney animator who you can find on Instagram. Sutherland was originally published in UTS’ Vertigo. Sutherland was originally read live at comics reading night Read to Me, whose next event is July 2nd. Find out more about the memorial park IRL. MI FAMILIA AND OTHER PIGS — Georgia Manuela Delgado; read by Shareeka Helaluddin Mi Familia and Other Pigs was originally published in Mascara Literary Review. You can read it there. The story was highly commended in the Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2017. The 2019 competition opens really soon in August. You’ll be able to enter here. Georgia can be found on&

Featuring stories written and read by Pip Smith, Rachel Ang, Sophia Melika, Victoria Manifold, Zacha Rosen, Pat Grant, and Caramel Sauce Mel.   Links missing in your podcast app? Visit http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#lovers RED CRAB — PIP SMITH Pip Smith’s latest book is Half Wild. Find more of her work at pipsmith.net Red Crab came out of the sidelines of writing a book about the more serious side of things on Christmas Island. It was read at Cuplet, a regular poetry night in Newcastle. Their next event is on July 11th. Follow them on Facebook for more details. GHOST GIRLFRIEND — RACHEL ANG Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne, and co-editor of the excellent Comic Sans anthology. Ghost Girlfriend was originally published in parts, as an instagram comic: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. The radio version ran slightly ahead of the drawn version, follow Rachel on

At Read to Me comics authors put their comics on screen — page by page, or panel by panel — and read them out live on the stage of Knox Street bar. It’s run by Gabe Clark and Fionn McCabe. In this episode, we’ll be hearing from Mary Van Reyk and Pat Grant. You can read along at Pat’s site with his comic Vanish Coast. It’s worth the trip. Follow Read to Me on Facebook to stay in the loop for their 2018 shows.

Little Fictions is kind of the stage presence of publishing house Spineless Wonders, run by Bronwyn Mehan, where the imprint’s authors have their stories read by actors on the stage of inner Sydney’s Knox St Bar. In this episode, we’ll hear the work of Shady Cosgrove, Jon Steiner, Ruth Wyer and Kate Walter acted out by Eleni Shumacher, Jon Steiner and Kate Fraser. You can also follow Little Fictions on Facebook.

Studio Stories is a live story night in Parramatta, run by writer Felicity Castagna. It focuses on stories by western Sydney writers, including authors from Sweatshop, West Words and the Finishing School. In this episode, we're going to be hearing from Studio Stories authors Tamar Chnorhokian, Chad Jared Modernel and Ben Muir. Studio Stories is run every couple of months at Parramatta Artists Studios. Follow them on Facebook to keep up with their events in 2018.