This Writing Life – Maria Donovan

Happy Publication Day!

April 4, 2024

Spring seems the perfect time for my story ‘Narcissus’ to make its appearance, just one of the fourteen offerings in Botanical Short Stories, edited by Emma Timpany. Out today, 4 April 2024!

Sunset on 2023

January 1, 2024

This is my last photo for December: a timely goodbye to 2023, and my offering for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge.

Turning the tide

December 10, 2023

I was just in time to add my contribution to the December Poetry Challenge from Fake Flamenco. The challenge was to write using the Japanese form; dodoitsu.

Eyeballing the Moon

November 10, 2023

Not every Full Moon drops so neatly into the giant’s eye socket. Maybe he’s going to wake up…

August Surprise!

September 8, 2023

I’m always surprised by the last photo I took for the month. This time it’s the allotment, which feeds me and my imagination. Join in with Bushboy’s Last on the card challenge.

The Uncollected

July 7, 2023

My last photo for June – and the strange separation between Post Office and Royal Mail.

Raining in my hall

May 4, 2023

This month’s entry for Bushboy’s Last on the card challenge contains a mystery.

The last photo on my phone for March is a herald of Spring – the celandine. Late entry for bushboy’s Last on the Card Challenge. Some not totally irrelevant advance news of inclusion in a new anthology.

When negative is positive

January 20, 2023

Covid caught up with me in December 2022.

Final PuN

June 3, 2022

Where is Napoleon’s tongue? Am I anything like my character, Marjorie Campbell? Bringing you more great artwork and a final round of questions about ‘Pumping Up Napoleon’ from students in South Korea studying dystopian science fiction.

Maria Donovan

facts and fiction

Category: This Writing Life