I’m Scotty McDonald, a storyteller from Brisbane, Australia

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I want to be an author, I don’t want to become an author

May 28, 2021

A few weeks ago my wife told me she’d heard about the Brisbane Writers Festival and asked why I didn’t go. My initial response was to tell her I "don’t fit in with that crowd." What crowd? Well… I wasn't sure exactly. I don't think I've ever experienced imposter...

SHORT STORY: Summer’s Annual Love Cycle

Aug 21, 2020

We’d fall in love again over four weeks every summer, my mum said we’d basically done it since we were eight. It’s like we’d spent the year collecting stories to share with each other while sitting on the safety of a nearly secluded beach across the road from my...