Last Photo for July
August 4, 2021
The challenge (thanks, Brian) is to show the last photo on your SD card or phone for July – unedited and with no comment. See Bushboy’s post for all the details.
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Maria Donovan is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She won first prize for Flash Fiction in the Bridport Prize 2019. Her published works include a short story collection: 'Pumping Up Napoleon' and a debut novel, 'The Chicken Soup Murder', which was shortlisted for The International Rubery Book Awards and a finalist for the Dundee International Book Prize.
Read my lips
July 23, 2021
An extract from The Chicken Soup Murder, read by me on Youtube. See me looking both owlish and like my mother, which is quite funny as I am channelling the voice and views of a ten-year-old boy.
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Last Photo for June
July 1, 2021
The challenge from Bushboy is to show the last photo on your SD card or phone for June – with no comment.
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Indelible: ‘Food and Nurture’
June 25, 2021
‘The day before the murder, George Bull tried to poison me with a cheese sandwich.’
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The Last Photo – a challenge
June 2, 2021
The challenge is to post, unedited, the last photo on your SD card or phone for May. My photos are mainly of nature but this one is packaged!
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The long and the short
May 28, 2021
Lately, I have been writing a story. It’s the kind that takes a long time to make short.
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April 16, 2021
Cardiff Poetry Festival is ON and so easy to visit online via Zoom with many free events. Here’s a sample from Chris Meredith’s new collection ‘Still’. On Sunday 12pm BST he’s launching this and a novel, ‘Please’. Please wave to me if you’re there!
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A Touching Tale: Maria Donovan and The Chicken Soup Murder — Q& A with Sarah Scribbles
April 2, 2021
Sarah Tinsley asks some great questions about my novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, plus there’s advice for writers starting out. For the full post it’s over to Sarah Scribbles.
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Indelible News!
March 12, 2021
Free and happening online March 15. 6pm local time is 2pm UTC 🙂
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Dropping the Keys
February 12, 2021
We pass each other in the park every weekday morning at approximately 7.32.
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