Thursday 09 October 2025 | 01:00 PM
Get ready to fall in love all over again. This restless city has a story to tell.
Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, bestselling author – and one of Australia's finest journalists – Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 gathering stories on his sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, on a prominent street corner in Brisbane’s CBD. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them one simple thing: "Can you please tell me a love story?"
What followed was Dalton’s unashamedly joyous collection of Love Stories, and the creative team behind the smash-hit page-to-stage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (director Sam Strong and writer Tim McGarry) reuniting to bring to life Dalton’s latest warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving story about love, in all its guises.
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Trent Dalton's Love Stories
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HOTA, Home of the Arts, 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, 4217, View Map
HOTA, Home of the Arts, 135 Bundall Road , Surfers Paradise 4217