Helen McDonald
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I’ll be contributing new material to the Elwood Writers Cover To Cover program for 2026. All I have so far is a theme and a blank page. The moment feels loaded with possibility, pulsing with potential, quivering with quiet excitement. Thrilling! – as long as the page doesn’t remain blank for too long. Because that…
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I’m thrilled to have work included in the latest Elwood Writers special edition of Cover to Cover for Vision Australia Radio — including ‘Fragrant’, one of the seventeen stories in Broken Rules & Other Stories (published by Transit Lounge). The program is all about change and place, and features a selection of Helen’s poetry, and…
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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…