writing retreats
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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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… 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
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At the beginning of September I joined a group of writing friends for a week-long retreat at a rented house in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The five of us originally met on a writing residency at Varuna in 2016, and have stayed in touch since then. The Sunday before leaving Melbourne, I
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