Welcome to Spill the Beans - your online writing community

Spill the Beans welcomes writers regardless of writing experience, age or cultural background. We set writing challenges and publish your responses here on our home page. You can vote for your favourite stories or poems. The most popular ones are printed for our members in book format. Scan below to read stories and poems in our eBook.

Whoo Hoo Time for a Festive challenge

Make us laugh, make us cry or make us sigh with envy when we read your 400 word poem or story about your fabulous or disastrous Festive experience.

Learn More

Put Festive 400 in the subject beanswrite21@gmail.com by 20 November 2022 or click below

Send your poem or story

Check out your AWESOME Challenge stories and poems

It's Time to VOTE

Your FESTIVE stories and poems have been delicious. Each one is like unwrapping a sparkling Christmas surprise. Which are your favourites?

Vote here

What a sparkling AGM!

Shiho Sparkle Hooper sets the scene

Cindy Davies Author

Shiho Sparkle Hooper sets the scene

A HUGE supporter of Spill the Beans Shiho Sparkle Hooper launched our first challenge 'It wasn't the travel experience I thought it would be' Today another first - a face to face AGM!

Catherine Wilson STONE Real Estate

Cindy Davies Author

Shiho Sparkle Hooper sets the scene

Our challenge book sponsor receives a Certificate of Appreciation along with Laurie Wilson, Poet and Photographer, Cindy Davies and Helen Lyne Photographer

Cindy Davies Author

We roar with laughter as authors Laurie Wilson, Helen Lyne and Cindy Davies read some of their challenge entries. Here is Cindy Davies with her story ' Drama on the Orient Express'

Harvey Broadbent: Musician

Speed Meet Author: Trina Ehsan

Cindy Davies Author

We truly listen to the words of Paperback Writer for the first time. What a great performance!

Speed Meet Author: Trina Ehsan

Trina's book 'Stolen Blessings is a memoir about growing up and later fleeing Afghanistan.

Speed Meet Author: Helen Lyne

Speed Meet Author: Trina Ehsan

Performance poet Helen Lyne entertained us with her poems Good Sons chatted about her Book of short stories Love, Disappointment and Other Joys of life.

Speed Meet Author: Jamie Brooke

Speed Meet Author: Vivien Wilson

Jamie Brooke, Childrens' authors talks about her books Wilbert the Wombat Social Distances and Wilbert the Wombat Saves the Day

Speed Meet Author: Vivien Wilson

Vivien Wilson discusses her book Ursula's Story, a vibrant memoir of her mother

Speed Meet Author: Julie Howard

Speed Meet Author: Vivien Wilson

Maria McDougall: President Society of Women Writers

'Nowt But Drippin' exclaims Julie Howard as she describes her novel which is a lively slice of Yorkshire life in the sixties.

Maria McDougall: President Society of Women Writers

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Maria McDougall: President Society of Women Writers

Maria McDougall: President Society of Women Writers presents Spill the Beans Certificates of Appreciation to Laurie Wilson, Helen Lyne and Cindy Davies

Meet Spill the Beans Authors at Manly Market 19 November

Not a member yet? Want to volunteer with this vibrant group

Members do you want to sell your books at the market? Email spillthebeans321@gmail.com put MARKET in the subject line and indicate if you would like a morning or afternoon spot

Not a member yet? Want to volunteer with this vibrant group

Not a member yet. Fill in the form on membership tab and you can sell your books with us, meet other authors and have lots of fun. Volunteers email us at spillthebeans321@gmail.com put VOLUNTEERS in the subject line

Beans get together and have some awesome fun!

A HUGE thank you to our wonderful sponsor Catherine Wilson (STONE REAL ESTATE). We couldn't have published your stories and poems without her help.

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Settlement Stories

Along with Multicultural Services Spill the Beans produced an ebook 'Settlement Stories'. Amazing to meet migrants and refugees from around the world. Click below to read more.

We welcome the opportunity to work with other organisations interested in running Spill the Beans writing workshops.

Read about Settlement Stories

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Renew your membership. Annual Fee: $20 ($10 Concession) send to

BSB: 633000 A/C 176254241 A/C Name: Spill the Beans NSW Inc

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We LOVE what you write

Challenge 1

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Challenge 2

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Help Spill the Beans publish more of your stories

First of all welcome to all our new members and a big thank you to everyone who made a donation. Without you, we couldn't fund this website.

Special thanks to Catherine Wilson from Stone Real Estate whose generous sponsorship enabled us to publish two books of your stories and poems.

A huge thank you to the team, who volunteer to do the editing, website design, blog, event management and administration.

How can you help?

Make donation today. A donation as little as $10 will ensure we can keep publishing your stories.
Become a member. For only $20 per year ($10 concession) you are first in line for all our events and to have your stories and poems published in our books
Join our writing adventure by volunteering to be part of our 'Beans' Team

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You can help us to publish more of your stories by making a donation today

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Come join us

Send us an email telling us what you like to do and how much time you have available.

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Would you like to host a 'Beans' workshop?

We offer action packed workshops where you can meet other authors, hear their stories and take a writing challenge or two.

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Reviews

I found Julie's workshop on Spill the Beans very interesting. She had a relaxed and conversational style and the fact that it was a Zoom meeting didn't seem to inhibit the flow. The exercise was a lot of fun and it was amazing to hear so many different responses to the prompt. Pippa

That was fabulous! You are a great speaker and I really enjoyed the writing. Well done! Lori

Congratulations, Julie on a great session today! It was entertaining and moving to hear other people's responses to the themes. I think we all learnt new things. Helen

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Copyright remains with contributors at all times.
By entering a challenge contributors agree that stories or poems may be published online; in SPILL THE BEANS books or in promotional materials.
While Spill the Beans values the author's authentic voice it retains the right to make editorial changes where needed.