Bree Woods
Bree Woods
storyteller | writer
About Bree Woods
Bree Woods is a storyteller at heart and will forever identify as a tropical island girl. She is a Perth | Boorloo based writer, born, and raised in the Seychelles islands. She writes women’s fiction and romance.
Just like her favourite Creole dishes from home, dance and music colours her life in rythms and adds flavour to her writing.
She freelances as a dancer; sega, moutya, (traditional dances from Seychelles) Maloya (traditional dance from Reunion island) samba no pe/ and a few other dances from the afro Brazilian dance repertoire. She is also a drummer in all-female Brazilian percussion band, Banda Ziriguidum. She recently added songwriting to her writing repertoire when she collaborated with another vocalist/dancer from Salama, a Creole Music band in which she is a member. Their second Fringe Perth show won the Best Musical Award for World Fringe Festival Perth in 2023.
Bree is inspired by her own culture and many others around the world. She is particularly interested in writing stories on characters of Creole, mixed heritage and migrants like herself.
Bree Woods would like to acknowledge the Wajdjuk Nyoongar people of the Borloo nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which she lives and shares my stories.
First nations people were the first storytellers on this land and she would like to pay respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.
A passionate storyteller
Photo courtesy of Sambozzy and Aline Kuba (Brazilian Beach Carnival)
Memories of my ancestor
by Bree Woods
I step where her blistered bleeding feet groaned a prayer of mercy, many years ago as it touched sand as soft as powdered tapioca.
The moutya drum starts the first beat and my feet moves on its own volution. The rhythm in me a distant echo,
a genetic memory that refuses to be erased, no matter how many bloods of distant lands, are mixed through my veins.
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