Elwood Writers

  • 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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  • 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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  • All about Adelaide

    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

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  • 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

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  • Web Sights

    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

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