For two months in 2021, Trent Dalton sat with complete strangers on a busy street corner in Brisbane City with his sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, to listen to them divulge their true love stories, which flourished into the unabashedly joyous and best-selling book Love Stories.

Now, in celebration of the world-premiere adaptation of Love Stories at Brisbane Festival, you’re invited to ‘write your heart out’ and share your own tales of first, enduring, or lost love as Trent returns as Artist-in-Residence at Museum of Brisbane with an interactive love-letter experience.

Every day in September, Museum of Brisbane visitors can fill the Dome Gallery with tender tales by writing their own love letters. This missives can then be sealed up as a secret or shared within the communal display that will celebrate everything and everyone we love in the city.

Trent will also return to his original source of inspiration in a one-off event, mentoring a select group of emerging writers for an intensive workshop about the intimate art of the interview. Primed with notepads, typewriters and recorders, Trent and his group of writers will take over King George Square for a free pop-up public event on Friday September 6 from 12:00–2:00 pm.

Locals will have the opportunity to share their love stories with Trent and his troupe of writers. The results of these amorous interviews will become part of the Write your heart out display in the Museum following the event.