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-four 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.
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 neither joining fees nor annual fees
If you wish to comment on any aspect of this site, or to ask a question about the Eastern Writers Group, send an email to robert.dalvean@gmail.com or phone (03) 94343491
Photo Gallery
A number of our members have featured in local Leader newspapers over the past couple of years, Clive being one, and Gwayne as well. The latest is Carol Gogonya whose photo with daughter Ashanti can be viewed at
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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.
Words at work
Here you can read some of the products of EWG members' imaginations.
The order in which these names appear doesn't reflect any kind of judgment about their merit.
Sandra Topp
Eccentricities of being eccentric - No 1 and Old kitten on the keys
Sue Worley -
All the fun of the autumn fair and Two green poems
Judith Buckingham -
Frog and Flowering cherry
Fletch Blunden -
Pigeons, or how I created a portal into a parallel universe: Currawongs rock!; and Wispy
Judith Hughes -
Off Point Lonsdale
James R. Vanselow -
Timeless man
Suburban Vampire -
Some Sonnets by Manfred Clootie
G M Naug -
Queenstown and Seahorses
Trevor Blum -
Poems for Helen
Brian Le Marquand -
Ben's dog
Robert Guy Kemp -
Three poemss and a prose piece Sunday in the park in China
G. M. Naug -
Streamers
Jack Buckingham -
On a past love
Trevor Blum -
Thinking about migraines
Robert Dalvean: poem -
Head-hunting
Robert Guy Kemp: sonnet -
Understanding
Jack Buckingham: poem
Today
Please note that copyright applies to all these works.
A new poem from an EWG writer
Wordy Love Affair
by Sandra Topp
My poems come to me I can’t let them go
I grab for a pen, thinking why is it so?
I sit up in bed and turn on the light,
What am I doing? it’s the middle of the night.Or, I’m driving in traffic, and as the lights turn to red
A catchy little phrase just pops into my head,
The light turns to green and off I must go,
Can’t turn off the words, can’t slow down the flow
I have to pull over, flashing lights I flick on
Don’t want to cause trouble, but don’t want the words gone.
Scribble them down quickly, in a way I can cipher
When I sit down to transcribe with the electric typewriter.I sometimes wish I could switch off my brain,
Then quickly regret even thinking that strain
No, please don’t let that happen, keep my faculties intact
Words, please don’t leave me, please keep coming back.
I will promise to nurture and cherish each line
That springs into my head, and claim you as mine.
Contacts
The
Eastern Writers Group meets once a month (third Sunday of each month)
at 2 p.m. 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 (web page)
25 Warwick Road, Greensborough,
Victoria, 3088.
Phone: 03 94343491
E-mail: robert.dalvean@gmail.com
James Vanselow (Secretary)
E-mail: jamesvanselow@hotmail.com
If you wish to e-mail the group as a whole,
send your message to:
easternwritersgroup@hotmail.com
