Love Stories Journal

Stories told are infinitely more useful than stories left untold. You were here on earth with your heart wide open. You lived. You loved. And then one day you wrote it all down.

Can you please tell me a love story? Will you consider looking back on that wondrous and complicated and wild and hard and beautiful life of yours? Would you mind giving the world the greatest gift of all? Your story, told once and for all inside the pages of this journal.

Based on Trent Dalton's warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises Love Stories Journal features a passionate and inspiring introduction from Trent, along with some gentle and thought-provoking prompts from him to help guide you as the journalist of your own love stories. The love you want to scream about from a mountaintop. The love you think about at midnight with your eyes open and your head on the pillow. The love you whisper to the sky. The love you have always needed to write about.

Above all, these pages help you capture your own voice (or the voices of those you love) and the defining story of your life. Stories told are infinitely more useful than stories left untold. You were here on earth with your heart wide open. You lived. You loved. And then one day you wrote it all down.

About the Author

Trent Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), the critically acclaimed international and national bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. At the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the novel won a record four awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been published across thirty-four territories, and the 2021 stage show was a record-breaking success for Queensland Theatre. His second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies (HarperCollins, 2020), was a number-one national bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2021 ABIA Awards. His non-fiction book Love Stories (HarperCollins, 2021) was also a number-one Australian bestseller and the winner of the 2022 Indie Book of the Year Award. Trent is also a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year.