Barry Lee Thompson

  • On Cover to Cover tonight, Elwood Writers pays tribute to founding member Jennifer Bryce, who died in April. Join Helen McDonald, Margaret McCaffrey and myself with presenter Tim McQueen at 8pm Melbourne time. I’ll be talking about how I first met Jenny at a literary event in 2007, and reading her beautiful and moving short-story

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  • The latest American Writers Review is hot off the press and hitting the shelves as we speak, and I’m thrilled to have two stories included in this year’s edition: ‘Rightaway’ and ‘Why Do You Continue To Smoke When You Know It’s Bad For You?’. I love the artwork on the cover, and can’t wait to

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  • Back in March I published a blog post about ‘The Americans’, the fourth story in my collection Broken Rules and Other Stories. That blog post was featured on episode 472 of Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio on 12 May, along with a new reading of the story itself. Listen to the podcast here,

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  • Participating is already a prize from fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com/ It’s time to think microfiction again for the seventh edition of the César Egido Serrano Foundation’s international contest. This year’s slogan: “Dream, write and share.” Instead of the usual two stories, participants are able to submit up to three stories of no more than 100 words each. As

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