writers groups

  • A return to the retreat

    Last year I wrote about a week-long retreat in the Blue Mountains with the four writing friends I met on my first Varuna residency back in 2016. We repeated the retreat this year; same house in Katoomba, though slightly later in the year, after the clocks had gone forward, so the weather was more springlike.

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  • Retreat

    At the beginning of September I joined a group of writing friends for a week-long retreat at a rented house in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The five of us originally met on a writing residency at Varuna in 2016, and have stayed in touch since then. The Sunday before leaving Melbourne, I

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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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