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Author: Maria Donovan

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.

Maria Donovan on a rampart of Eggardon Hill - close up

On Eggardon – learning and poetry

June 20, 2017

Eggardon Hill Fort becomes a Poetry Park.

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My Haiku Diary May 25 2017

May 25, 2017

One minute’s silence

twenty-two dead, dozens hurt

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Sign the contract

Contract!

April 21, 2017

A long silence on the blogging front usually means much invisible work going on. Continue reading “Contract!”

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Cherry Blossom in April

Poetry – 100 years asleep

March 24, 2017

On Thursday 16 March 2017 I had a revelation: I would, henceforth, make sense of my life through the medium of – poetry. Continue reading “Poetry – 100 years asleep”

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Trish’s novel lives as author passes away

March 9, 2017

The sad coda to the story of Trish’s novel in my blog post ‘News: people are kind’ is that she really didn’t have very much time. She passed away on the 9th of March 2017 just as her novel came into being. Continue reading “Trish’s novel lives as author passes away”

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News: people are kind

February 25, 2017

Sometimes we think we don’t know how to help – and sometimes we think we do. Continue reading “News: people are kind”

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Bloggety-Blog

February 23, 2017

My books page is mostly about fiction – my blog posts are mainly about facts. Facts or factual stories that have interested me. I hope that something here will interest you. And there will be opinions, because it’s a fact that people do have them.  Continue reading “Bloggety-Blog”

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