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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Ricci Schwarzler - Grand
‘The evening was grand’, my Grandmother announced. ‘There were ground people here, the venue is grand and the food is grand and so are...
Ricci Schwarzler
Sep 9, 20242 min read


Jeanette Abery – Grand
‘That’s grand’ says Jon. ‘What’s grand?’ asks Lucy. ‘It’s grand that it’s school holidays.’ – Jon ‘Why?’ – Lucy ‘’Cause I can go...
Jeanette Abery
Sep 9, 20241 min read


Carol Gano – Grand
Grand, Grand, Grand Grand piano, grand rounds, Grand prix, Lost in the grandstands Lost Forlorn For instance For sooth (as in...
Carol Gano
Sep 9, 20241 min read


Elaine Arbery - Grand
Why is a grand grand? It’s a grand night for singing. The moon is riding high... Such an old-fashioned term. It’s grand became it’s cool…...
Elaine Abery
Sep 9, 20242 min read


David Gairdner – Ocean Blues
- Fish can’t feel depression but what is the harm in thinking they do. - Perhaps they are just undiagnosed. - Could...
David Gairdner
Sep 9, 20241 min read


Vesna McMaster – Grand
‘We don’t know anything about this girl. You can’t just go and marry her.’ ‘But Mum she’s a princess.’ ‘So she says.’ ‘Look, the...
Vesna McMaster
Sep 9, 20242 min read


Ricci Schwarzler - Personality
She saw him standing with a dowdy looking woman. She had long brown hair, was short and overweight, in the worst clothes anyone could...
Ricci Schwarzler
Aug 12, 20242 min read


David Gardner – Personality
What do I see in Ash? I don’t see much. I see a meat boy. Faffing around Meat puppet He is loyal. He is like my dog, the one I...
David Gairdner
Aug 12, 20242 min read


Vesna McMaster – Personality
Penkethman’s Pest Exterminators. Peter Penkethman had built the business up from nothing. Not it was a household name. If you’re about to...
Vesna McMaster
Aug 12, 20241 min read


Elaine Abery - Personality
Personality People love me or hate me – black or white. That is the way I felt about things when I was 15. I only know that because I was...
Elaine Abery
Aug 12, 20243 min read


Michael Collins – Personality
I had a personality once upon a time. I thought that it belonged to me... till I realized... It was not really mine. This...
Michael Collins
Aug 12, 20241 min read


Michael Sheridan – Personality
“I was reading about MBTI yesterday”, I tell my wife Elizabeth. MBTI is the Meters-Briggs Type Indicator, a system for sorting...
Michael Sheridan
Aug 12, 20242 min read


Kevan Smith - Personality
‘What do you mean I don’t try? I’ve been called the most trying person that ever lived.’ Today I will climb over a fence, the barbed wire...
Kevan Smith
Aug 12, 20242 min read


Michael Collins - Rain
Rain has no conscience shows no fear Displays no love… Is not a living thing. Effects not to condemn… not to judge…. Simply falls from a...
Michael Collins
Jul 8, 20241 min read


David Gairdner - Haiku
Cloud curtained winter I lose my way in thicket without leaving home.
David Gairdner
Jul 8, 20241 min read


Kevan Smith - Reign
A pub discussion ‘Up to my bloody armpits. It doesn’t bloody stop. Everywhere you look is his face. Just like his sister ole Horseface....
Kevan Smith
Jul 8, 20242 min read


Ricci Schwarzler - Rain
Will it ever stop? The Mexican Volcano Rabbits scurried into their burrows. It was torrential and it wasn’t meant to be. Their floating...
Ricci Schwarzler
Jul 8, 20242 min read


Vesna McMaster - Rein
‘He’s off the rails.’ ‘You really need to rein him in.’ ‘Rein in? How? I don’t have any say here.’ ‘You have a say when he spends half...
Vesna McMaster
Jul 8, 20242 min read


Kate McManus – Rain
I am the rainwoman of the tribe, the one who thrives as it pours, comes to life in the sodden condensation and liquid moving earth. It’s...
Kate McManus
Jul 8, 20241 min read


Where am I - Ricci Schwarzler
Where am I? I looked around me. Cabbages everywhere! WHAT? This is ridiculous! Where am I? What am I doing amongst so many cabbages? I don’t understand… Ohhhhh, woe is me! The cabbages beside me smile and their little cabbage eyes crinkle up. What? They’re alive? That’s absurd. The sky is dark. Dark grey. It takes all the blue out of the light and everything appears brighter and more vibrant. I stare to the heavens and try to understand what I’m doing with all these brigh
Ricci Schwarzler
Jun 17, 20242 min read
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