Our fourth session led by Lorna, was an absolute cracker, as we writers could not stop ourselves from telling stories. We identified how important stories are in shaping beliefs, morality and how we make sense of the world. We looked at tiny stories, powerful stories we’d been told and why stories get repeated.

By chance, two of our contributors chose the back of a taxi for a story setting. But when you come to think about it, backs of taxis are most frequent and exclusive story containers…

Lorna brought an excerpt from Mark Lewis’s Erimos along, and we all agreed it had us hooked as to what is to follow:

Next week, we focus on local stories…but first we’ll need to define what ‘local’ means to each of us…