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.

Judith Buckingham - Frog and Flowering cherry

James R. Vanselow - Timeless man

Judith Hughes - Off Point Lonsdale

Suburban Vampire - Some Sonnets by Manfred Clootie

Trevor Blum  -  Poems for Helen

G M Naug - Queenstown and Seahorses

Brian Le Marquand - Ben's dog

Robert Kemp - Three poems

Trevor Blum - Thinking about migraines
G. M. Naug - Streamers
Jack Buckingham - On a past love
Dave Blunden - Pigeons, or how I created a portal into a parallel universe

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

 

 

 

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

 

A new book from an EWG member!

 Plane Wrapper

by Clive N Chatfield

Plane Wrapper novel cover
 

 

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)

and, while you're here, read Gwayne's story Sinbad

 

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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This page is maintained by Bob Dalvean, Treasurer of the Eastern Writers Group.
Telephone (03) 94343491, email robert.dalvean@gmail.com

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