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  • Radio times

    I visited the Vision Australia Radio studios with fellow Elwood Writer Margaret McCaffrey on 11 January to record material for a forthcoming edition of Cover to Cover, to be broadcast on Friday 2 February at 8:00PM (AEDT), repeated Sunday 4 February at 1:00PM (AEDT). The program’s lineup includes three pieces by Elwood Writers published in…

  • The story behind ‘Gray’

    ‘Gray’ – the fifth story in Broken Rules and Other Stories (Transit Lounge, 2020) – tells the tale of an empathetic sex-worker and a new client, an elderly man whose financial circumstances preclude any further appointments. Once their session is over, instead of leaving, the worker accompanies the elderly man to the local park, where…

  • The Writer

    I often used to sit with him while he worked on a story. I could say that all the while he was writing, but often he’d only be reading over something he’d already written. He took ages over the smallest detail. I’d be in the armchair by the window, reading a paperback novel I’d brought…

  • Flash fiction assessment phase: You can vote! (If you took part.)

    The preliminary assessment phase of the VII Edition of the International Short Story Competition is now underway, and this time it involves participants rating stories themselves – though not their own, of course. If you submitted at least one story into this year’s contest, go to the homepage of the César Egido Serrano Foundation for…

  • A return to the retreat

    Last year I wrote about a week-long retreat in the Blue Mountains with the four writing friends I met on my first Varuna residency back in 2016. We repeated the retreat this year; same house in Katoomba, though slightly later in the year, after the clocks had gone forward, so the weather was more springlike.…