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  • Cover to Cover | Episode 339

    Last week’s edition of Cover to Cover is now available as a podcast. Episode 339 featured readings of ‘Their Cruel Routines’ and ‘The Americans’ from Broken Rules and Other Stories (Transit Lounge, 2020). Thanks to producer Tim McQueen for devoting an entire show to stories from the collection, and for reading them from his temporary…

  • Short Is Sweet

    In the end it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation. Sacheverell Sitwell, For Want of the Golden City A few months ago a friend recommended I read a short story by the English writer Robert Aickman. ‘The Real Road to the Church’ is in the collection Cold Hand in Mine (1975), and…

  • The Repeat

    If like me you missed yesterday’s edition of Vision Australia Radio’s Cover to Cover, there’s another chance to catch it today at 1:30PM (AEST) on the radio in Australia or online wherever you are in the world. This week’s program features two short stories from my book Broken Rules and Other Stories: listen to Tim…

  • Stories on the Wireless

    Originally posted on Barry Lee Thompson: Next week’s Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio will feature stories from my recently released book Broken Rules and Other Stories. Listen to ‘Their Cruel Routines’ and ‘The Americans’ on the radio in Australia or online anywhere in the world with an internet connection. The program will be…

  • Launch of Every Second Tuesday

    We are delighted to have the Elwood Writers group – Jennifer Bryce, Margaret McCaffrey, Helen McDonald and Barry Lee Thompson – join us online to discuss Every Second Tuesday. A new anthology of poetry, fiction and memoir, this kaleidoscope of stories spans the globe from the trenches of France in World War One to a dystopian…