Barry Lee Thompson

  • My writing group Elwood Writers has been invited by Tim McQueen at Vision Australia Radio to put together a tribute to our colleague and friend Jennifer Bryce, who died on 27 April. We’re working on the program now, and will record it for Cover to Cover in July, to be broadcast shortly afterwards – there’s

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  • Two on the Shelf

    Originally posted on Elwood Writers: Helen was browsing in Stoneman’s Bookroom in Castlemaine last week, and spotted something rather exciting. In the middle of the second shelf in the photo below is a copy of the Elwood Writers anthology Every Second Tuesday. Helen sent this pic to the group, and we ran our eyes along…

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  • The latest issue of Working Writer has just landed, and that seems like a good opportunity for some shameless self-publicity a quick reminder that my piece ‘A Writing Framework’ is published in the previous issue (Mar/Apr 2023), and is available to read here. A reminder also that subscriptions to Working Writer are FREE – just

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  • ‘The Americans’ – the fourth story in Broken Rules and Other Stories – is an homage to the annual summer holidays I used to take with my parents when I was growing up. We would spend two weeks every year in a seaside location, usually in the UK. For many years Bournemouth, on the south

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  • Working Writer

    In March 2016 I wrote a short blog post for the Elwood Writers website, part of a series of contributions from each group member about our various writing methods. My piece looked at some of the reasons I write short fiction, the way I write, and how I structure my working days. I revisited the

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