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Imagination and Reality
Go outside and eat a leaf, tear off your clothes and swim underwater, stick your fingers in mud, stand at the edge of a crevasse and feel yourself sway, in summer, autumn cram strawberries, raspberries, blackberries into your mouth, see the stain on your fingers, eat carrots whole from the ground, lie in a darkened…
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Writing: Time for a break?
So we’re not aspiring writers, we’re writers, so we write whenever we can. If we have a full time job we get up early or write into the night. If we stay at home with children we write when they are napping or happily occupied or in preschool or gone to bed. If we go…
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Night of Women’s Prose in Irish Writer’s Centre
I received word on the following event in the Irish Writer’s Centre tonight if you are in Dublin. From the success of the Night of Women’s Prose 2010, as part of the week of celebration for the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, The Night of Women’s Prose 2011 will take place from 7:30, March…
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Mother Writer Interviews: Maria Duffy
My four children are aged between 10 and 3. As a novelist and short story writer I was interested to find out how other women writers with young children manage their writing time and find creativity among chaos. In this series of interviews, running every Sunday from March to the end of May we hear…
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Two Short Story Competitions
Short story writers, here are two short story competitions that you may be interested in with closing dates in the next couple of months. The William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen is due in April, with a 3000 word limit and a 20 euro entrance fee, the Molly Keane award is free to enter, due in March and…
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I’m not an aspiring writer
I’ve yet to publish a novel or a collection of short stories. (Update: As of 2012 I self-published a sci-fi comedy & some short stories but I’m still working on the agent & trad deal!) I’m not known in literary circles or seen in bookshops. I’ve been on the radio twice but you wouldn’t have…
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Writing.ie
Writing.ie has launched. It’s the project of Vanessa O’ Loughlin author and founder of Inkwell Writers (inkwellwriters.ie) who gives a wonderful video welcome on the site. Writing.ie is an ambitious undertaking that has so much to offer writers at every level. The site is pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate but there are…
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#fridayflash If you.
I want to say to you that…I’m so….You know that time when we…I know this doesn’t make any…. Sometimes I wish that I could…But if I only… and then the way you ….. but perhaps it didn’t…. and then again oh but you…..it’s not clear if… and at the same time….there was that….there was that….I…
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February Fairytales
Today, check out Eight Cuts Gallery’s new exhibition Once Upon a Time in a Gallery. Fairytales revisited and subverted through art and words. Take your time to travel through the links that will lead you on unexpected journeys and you may find something from me there too…. Visit: Once Upon a Time in a Gallery…
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