Margaret McCaffrey

  • Why are we writing?

    “Writing 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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  • Stories on your radio

    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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  • Radio times

    I visited the Vision Australia Radio studios with fellow Elwood Writer Margaret McCaffrey on 11 January to record material for a forthcoming edition of Cover to Cover, to be broadcast on Friday 2 February at 8:00PM (AEDT), repeated Sunday 4 February at 1:00PM (AEDT). The program’s lineup includes three pieces by Elwood Writers published in…

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  • Web Sights

    The recent launch of the Elwood Writers anthology Every Second Tuesday has prompted me to remember and reflect on the early days of the group. We’ve covered a lot of ground in thirteen-and-a-half years of meeting. One of the things we discussed at length back in the day was the merits or otherwise of having…

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