Elwood Writers
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I’m thrilled to be a team member on this year’s issue of American Writers Review from San Fedele Press. I really enjoyed judging last year’s AWR literary contest with Elwood Writers and am grateful for the opportunity to spend some time on the editorial side of the fence again. The journal is now seeking submissions…
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Timely reminders from Margaret of Elwood Writers and the group itself that the window for submitting work to the American Writers Review (San Fedele Press) 2025 literary contest is shrinking alarmingly quickly. How did we get to the last third of July so quickly! But don’t fret, there’s still time to enter, even if you…
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Last week Elwood Writers went on its first ever writing retreat. We rented a cottage in Victoria’s spa country, the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. Our honorary canine member and muse Ruby came too; she had the run of a huge backyard, sharing the space with kangaroos and possums and many other bush…
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I’ve been working on a story for an upcoming Elwood Writers special for Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio. The deadline to get the material to producer Tim McQueen is early October, so the program might well go to air later this year, a spring/summer broadcast, but we don’t have any more detail as…
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… going away is valuable because it offers opportunities to gain fresh perspectives on your work. It might even present an epiphany or revelation, literary or otherwise. At the very least, it’s a working holiday for the mind, and offers a chance to contemplate quietly, whether alone or in the company of other writers. I…
Barry Lee Thompson 