Margaret McCaffrey

  • I’m thrilled to have work included in the latest Elwood Writers special edition of Cover to Cover for Vision Australia Radio β€” 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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  • Don’t miss the August 1 deadline for the American Writers Review contest

    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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  • The podcast of Cover to Cover episode 548 – broadcast on Vision Australia Radio on Friday 25 October, repeated Sunday 27 October – is available (see above). The program is an Elwood Writers special, featuring work created and performed by members of the group, including myself. My contribution is ‘Haunting in Bandung’ (18 minutes into

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  • Why are we writing?

    β€œWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing, if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” – George Orwell The latest issue of Working Writer dropped recently, with a very interesting front-page

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