About

Storytelling, whether written or spoken, whatever the medium, poetry, art, music, dance, is all part of who we are as humans. Storytelling is in my DNA. I am a Welsh person living in an Australian body, or it could be the other way around.

Rhiannon Dowding

Mountain Top Studios

I write stories. I tell stories. I read stories. I spend a lot of time learning about stories. I hope one day to inspire young people to read stories. I want children to love my stories and that my stories will one day help them fall in love with reading.

Working with teenagers for many years taught me a great deal about life and the power of storytelling.

I spend most of my time learning about the craft of writing. I hope to be published one day but for now I press ‘publish’ every month on my blog page, which is my way of being brave and putting myself out there.

My current work in progress is an adventure story about a young girl who loves horses, lives on a property and is trying to find her place in the world. The story is set in rural Australia and so far there are, cattle going missing, a missing prized mare, bushfires and even kidnapping. The story is teaching me about writing and about myself as a writer and a human being.

‘A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’ Roald Dahl

Thank you for visiting my corner of the world.