The Writing Group

~ Margaret McCaffrey

As you might know, my writing group Elwood Writers is an active and committed cohort of four. Member, Barry Lee Thompson, recently wrote about the group on The Writing Life, a blog hosted by Lee Kofman, author of fiction and non-fiction books. She is a superlative teacher – among her other talents – to both established and emerging writers. At an online event in 2020 hosted by Readings bookstore, Lee launched the Elwood Writers’ anthology, Every Second Tuesday. More about the collection of prose and poems can be found here.

You can read Barry’s take on the elements that lead to a successful writing group below:

http://leekofman.com.au/the-writing-life/how-to-maintain-a-thriving-writers-group-a-guest-post-by-barry-lee-thompson

Barry’s own collection of linked short stories, Broken Rules and Other Stories, was published by Transit Lounge that same year to critical and popular acclaim. Read about all about it here. Happy reading.

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Margaret is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer developing a memoir about the relationship she had with her father, who'd been wounded during the Second World War and made prisoner of war in Germany. Excerpts from her manuscript can be found in American Writers Review, Jewels of San Fedele and Clairitage Press. In 2013 she was awarded a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony where, under the tutelage of Kaylie Jones, she realised that no war is a 'good war' for returned soldiers ignored by their governments. In 2015, she received an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, PA. and has been writing ever since - non-fiction, memoir and the occasional short story.

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