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Jennifer Bryce | A tribute on Vision Australia Radio

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 more in this blog post from Elwood Writers: I first met Jenny in 2007 at a literary festival in Glen Eira. We found common ground in our desire to develop our writing through the regular sharing of work. For a while, the two of us … Continue reading Jennifer Bryce | A tribute on Vision Australia Radio

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All about Adelaide

Barry Lee Thompson

I visited the Vision Australia Radio studios in Kooyong on Tuesday morning to record my story ‘A Standard Night’ for the upcoming Cover to Cover special edition featuring work by Elwood Writers. The theme of the edition is ‘Adelaide’. I wrote ‘A Standard Night’ especially for the program. A friend asked me on Tuesday night what the story’s about. I hadn’t given much thought to describing it, but I told them it’s a fictionalised distillation of some of my Adelaide impressions and experiences. I immediately liked that description – it neatly sums the story up. The Elwood Writers Cover to … Continue reading All about Adelaide

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‘How to Maintain a Thriving Writers Group’

Barry Lee Thompson

I re-blogged a post from the Elwood Writers site yesterday, and the links in the preview of the original post got corrupted in the reblogging. I’ve no idea why. Maybe Elwood Writers could investigate. Anyway, I like a nice clean post so thought I’d try a different approach. Here goes: I’ve written the October guest post for the blog on Lee Kofman’s website. ‘How to Maintain a Thriving Writers Group’ is online now at The Writing Life. According to Elwood Writers, the post ‘offers practical tips to anyone thinking of starting a group, or for those who want to inject … Continue reading ‘How to Maintain a Thriving Writers Group’

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Web Sights

Barry Lee Thompson

The recent launch of the Elwood Writers anthology Every Second Tuesday has prompted me to remember and reflect on the early days of the group. We’ve covered a lot of ground in thirteen-and-a-half years of meeting. One of the things we discussed at length back in the day was the merits or otherwise of having a website. I remember how helpful it was to weigh up the pros and cons together. I browsed through my site’s archives last night and went to its very first blog post from 19 January 2013, almost eight years ago. ‘All over her face’ is … Continue reading Web Sights