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

‘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

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, just like Roald Dahl did. My daughter cried when she found out he had died. She didn’t want to believe there’d be no more of his stories. I want children to love my stories and to help them fall in love with reading. The idea of a child being swept away to another place in their imagination is what motivates me to keep writing.

Working with teenagers for many years taught me a great deal about life. Creative arts was my field of expertise. Now I am free to find expression for my own creativity.

I spend a lot of my time learning what it means to be a writer. I hope to be published one day but for now I press ‘publish’ every month on my blog page. This 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 and longs for one of her own. Her story is teaching me reams about writing and about myself as a writer and a human being.

Thank you for visiting my corner of the world.