7:30pm – 9:30pm

Story Club

Duncan Fellows and Steph Vizard with Donné Restom replacing Jennifer Wong. Hosted by Osher Günsberg and Zoe Norton-Lodge.

$25 + booking fee (beverages and food optional extras)

Story Club is a live storytelling show packed with special guests, brilliant stories and lots of laughs. For this Words on the Waves fifth birthday edition, our brave guests Donné Restom, Steph Vizard and Duncan Fellows – alongside intrepid hosts Osher Günsberg and Zoe Norton-Lodge – will share the time they flew ‘too close to the sun’.

Please note: seating is unallocated.

Duncan Fellows

Duncan Fellows (He/Him) is an actor with over 25 yrs experience across Australian TV, voiceover and theatre. A graduate of Theatre Nepean’s BA Performance, Duncan also has a Graduate Diploma from AFTRS Radio School. TV credits include Deadloch, The Letdown, He Had It Coming, We Interrupt This Broadcast, Heartbreak High,The Messenger, Sunny Nights, A Moody Christmas, Fam Time, Laid, Review With Myles Barlow, At Home With Julia, Life Support, Comedy Inc, All Saints and Home and Away. Duncan spent five years hosting BBC Australia’s Cbeebies Channel, and has recently clocked up 15 yrs as a voiceover for the 7 network.

Duncan has been teaching drama to students of all ages since 2015 and currently teaches adults here on the Central Coast for Darlo Drama.

Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong is a writer, comedian, and presenter of Chopsticks or Fork? (ABC iview). She is the co-author of Chopsticks or Fork?: Recipes and Stories from Australia’s Regional Chinese Restaurants (Hardie Grant), and a contributor to the anthology Admissions: Voices within Mental Health (Upswell).

Unfortunately due to serious illness, Jennifer Wong will not be able to join us for Words on the Waves 2025.

Steph Vizard

Steph Vizard is an Australian writer and lawyer. After studying literature at Oxford University, she worked in publishing in London. Her debut romantic comedy, The Love Contract, won the 2022 HarperCollins Banjo Prize and her second novel will come out in October 2025. She is a connoisseur of salt and vinegar chips and lives with her family in Melbourne.

Osher Günsberg

Osher Günsberg is a best-selling author, podcaster, TV host, husband, dad, stepdad, electric mobility enthusiast and part-time climate worrier.

Zoe Norton Lodge

Zoe Norton Lodge is a writer and television producer. She has appeared on screens in various ABC TV shows including their consumer affairs show The Checkout. As well as authoring a (very silly) memoir Almost Sincerely, she created the middle grade series Elizabella with her illustrator sister Georgia Norton Lodge. The pair are working on a graphic novel inspired by the recent discovery of a humble museum which is in part dedicated to their family history. Zoe is the executive producer of ABC TV’s dedicated arts show Art Works.