Barry Lee Thompson

  • The Pearl Prize 2025

    The finalists for next year’s Pearl Prize have been announced, and I’m thrilled to be on the list. Now in its second year, The Pearl Prize is presented with Osborne and Fawkner Publishing and supported by Midsumma Festival. All fifteen finalists will be published in The Pearl Prize 2025 anthology, available during Midsumma. This is…

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  • Stories on the wireless đź“»đźŽ™ď¸Ź

    The podcast of Cover to Cover episode 548 – broadcast on Vision Australia Radio on Friday 25 October, repeated Sunday 27 October – is available (see above). The program is an Elwood Writers special, featuring work created and performed by members of the group, including myself. My contribution is ‘Haunting in Bandung’ (18 minutes into…

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  • Why are we writing?

    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing, if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” – George Orwell The latest issue of Working Writer dropped recently, with a very interesting front-page…

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  • Sirocco

    The wind whips, scrapes boxes and wrappers across the pavement and into the air, thrashes the treetops. It’s going to be hotter than it’s been for months, they say. Oppressively hot and windy, say the forecasters. You can tell they’ll be right this time, that things will turn out exactly the way they’ve said. It’s…

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  • The story behind ‘Phase’

    Here in the southern hemisphere, winter is beginning to give way to spring. Different flowers are blooming: while out walking, the heady scent of jasmine has hit me once or twice, drifting over a garden fence or down a laneway. And the sun is setting later, by about two minutes each night. And though I…

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