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.
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!
Continue reading “Friday Poem – ‘On Allt yr Esgair’ by Christopher Meredith”
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.
Continue reading “A Touching Tale: Maria Donovan and The Chicken Soup Murder — Q& A with Sarah Scribbles”
Free and happening online March 15. 6pm local time is 2pm UTC 🙂
Continue reading “Indelible News!”
We pass each other in the park every weekday morning at approximately 7.32.
Continue reading “Dropping the Keys”
Much to see in the neighbourhood in 2020. Some favourite photos tell a story of the year.
Continue reading “2020 BC/DC”
Part One of three parts over three days, this Christmas story is a semi-humorous collection of reminiscences from an adult when he was a teenager. He said it is a fictional recollection – but is it? I have retained the way it was imparted to me, with minimal alterations and formatting so readers may find […]
Mr Bad Neighbour’s Christmas Mail – First Episode
I so enjoy Gretchen’s posts from Australia – and this story is a Christmas Cracker! The warmth in all senses is very welcome on this dark and snowless day. Looking forward to part 2.
Sometimes it feels like an achievement to go on putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes you need to stop to take in the view.
Continue reading “Walking into Autumn”
Thanks to Becky Ross Michael, a glimpse into the U.P. Reader #4 has set off in me a nostalgia for a place I’ve never been: the Upper Peninsular of Michigan.
Continue reading “Steaming across the pond”
After a year in my kitchen, the Dorset Award Statue goes back to The Book Shop, Bridport, to be presented to the highest-placed author from Dorset in this year’s Bridport Prize.
Continue reading “Return of the Pen”The Welsh Smallholding Adventure
Expressing Thought Through Photography
inspired by the colours of the land, sea and sky of Cornwall
childrens books and other ephemera
Thoughts on life, writing, creativity and magic
Ramblin on
Short stories online
The Cricket Pages
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie
Writer, Performer, Professor
"Books. Cats. Life is Good." –T.S. Eliot
It isn't as easy as it looks. Wait, what? It doesn't look easy?
Texas State USBC Association
Loving books and reading
