Our June 2010 Newsletter, compiled by
EWG secretary Jim Vanselow can be read here now. It's in MS Word
document form, which you can download to read on your own system. This
newsletter is aimed at regular EWG members, so please don't respond to
appeals for contributions. If you wish to become an EWG member, contact
details are shown below on the right under Who Are We? |
Words at work Here you can read some
of the products of EWG members' imaginations. We have works by Jack
Buckingham, Robert Kemp Linda Brinckman, Manfred Clootie, Judith Buckingham,
Brian Le Marquand and Gwayne Naug with more to come later this year.
The order in which these names appear doesn't reflect any kind of judgment
about their merit. They're listed in the order of acquisition.
To see more of the Eastern Writers' works,
go here!
Or Visit the Eastern Writers Group's
Anthology Page
here
Contacts The Eastern Writers
Group meets once a month (third Sunday of each month) at the Box Hill
South Neighbourhood House, 47-49 Kitchener Street, Box Hill South,
Victoria, Australia 3128. Send non-urgent mail to
this address. If you need a quick response, contact
any of the following: Bob Dalvean (Treasurer), 25
Warwick Road, Greensborough, Victoria, 3088.
Phone: 03 94343491
E-mail: robert.dalvean@gmail.com James Vanselow
(Secretary)
E-mail: jamesvanselow@hotmail.com
Brian Le Marquand (Convener) 13 Grandview Grove, Bayswater, Victoria
3153
Phone: 03 9720 1973 If you wish to e-mail the
group as a whole, use:
easternwritersgroup@hotmail.com
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The Biggest Little
Short Story competition for 2009
The winning stories
First prize:
Crazy or not
by Marie Parkins
Second prize:
Sammy's certificates
by Garry Hurle
Third prize: Iluka
by Rhonda Aron
To read these stories, click on the titles, but
remember that copyright belongs to the authors.
Judges' report for the 2009 competition
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A new book from an EWG member!
Plane Wrapper by Clive N
Chatfield
Launched April 2010
We have had a flush of book launches in the past year or so,
beginning with Gwayne Naug’s Seeds of Empire,
followed by Clive Chatfield’s Lighter than Air. As
Gwayne’s historical novel set in India was the first of the
Ferenghi Quartet, it was not unexpected when it was followed
by Banners of the Sun, continuing the story of
Claude Martin. Now we’ve done it again, this time with
Plane Wrapper, the second of Clive Chatfield’s
fast-moving novels that mix crime with aeronautics, aerobatics and
aero-shenanigans. This launch is again being sponsored by
the EWG. The blurb on the back of the book begins with:
Carbon monoxide laden exhaust fumes pour suddenly into Cessna 172
VH-TLS's cabin. Hot, dizzy, confused and with a splitting headache, the
pilot tries to land. Flying school manager Jan Garreth and their new
instructor watch horrified as it dives into a paddock and explodes into
flames.
That’s enough for now
to get you entangled in this “web of menace, murder and violence”.
You can by a copy of Plane Wrapper from Palmer Higgs (http://www.palmerhiggsbooks.com.au/lighter-than-air-p-4.html)
or by contacting the author, Clive N Chatfield on cnchat@melbpc.org.au;
phone: 03 9511 4933. To meet the author
himself visit this site:
http://www.palmerhiggsbooks.com.au/page.html?id=9
In June 2009 the Eastern Writers Group launched
Clive N Chatfield's Lighter than air.
Author Clive in control
And previously, as mentioned above:
Two books from one quartet.
First there was Seeds of Empire
by Gwayne Naug
And now Number two in the series known as The
Ferenghi Quartet
Banners of the Sun
The second volume was launched at the Eastern Writers
Group's Christmas meeting, December 20 2009 Go
here for pictures from the launch.
G. N. Naug
For details of Seeds of Empire and Banners of the Sun,
go here
(The Palmer Higgs website)
Who are we?
The Eastern Writers Group is an association of writers, amateur and
professional, that has only one aim: to encourage writers.
The group was founded in 1938 and has functioned continuously since then,
which means that we are seventy-two years old this year.
Meetings are held once a month at 2 pm on the third Sunday in every month at
the Box Hill South Neighbourhood House, 47-49 Kitchener Street, Box Hill
South, Victoria 3128. (The starting time used to be 1.30, but the committee
felt that members needed time to finish their lunches before going to a
meeting, so it's now 2 p.m.)
Writers are welcome to attend meetings and read samples of their works.
Non-writers who are interested in literature are also welcome.
We aim to give community writers a chance to hear their work discussed and
to help one another by freely expressing their opinions.
Our meetings are informal; there is a contribution of $4.00 per member per
meeting to pay for hire of the Neighbourhood House. (Only those who actually
attend a meeting are asked to contribute; we have no joining fee and no
annual fee.)
For details phone (03) 9434 3491. (E-mail address: robert.dalvean@gmail.com)
The e-mail address given here until
recently for contact purposes (rdalvean@bigpond.com) is no longer
functioning. Please use the G-mail address.
Our Monthly meeting place Wait a
while for the map to load . . . if it doesn't load, go to Google.com and
select "maps". Then enter 47-49 Kitchener Street, Box Hill South. If that
doesn't work, consult a Melbourne street directory.
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