The West Australian's Stephen Scourfield has twice been voted Australia’s Best Travel Writer and has a United Nations Media Award for fairness in publishing. But he is also an award-winning writer of novels, novellas and essays, as well as an accomplished spoken word performer. Here, he chats with former colleague and Writing WA CEO Will Yeoman about a life in writing, the differences between writing for the page and for the stage and how a tour itinerary can also be a form of narrative storytelling.