Margaret McCaffrey
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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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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…