River Brit
June 8, 2024
The last photo for May is of the River Brit. A place full of memories, but always changing.
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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.
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PUN: Questions from South Korea
May 20, 2022
My short story ‘Pumping up Napoleon’, now 21 years old, gave a little kick of life recently, with some interest from young students in South Korea. This is the first of three posts in which I try to answer their questions about a story written before they were born.
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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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Slow it down
February 14, 2020
Time out of time is great for writing. But things are moving on too fast.
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Winner in a flash! Bridport Prize 2019
November 1, 2019
2019 brings welcome encouragement: First place in the Bridport Prize, Flash Fiction, with ‘Aftermath’
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Good grief
August 16, 2019
The Ruth Strauss Foundation, bereavement and how cricket helped me write The Chicken Soup Murder.
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Knock three times
July 19, 2019
The Chicken Soup Murder has been shortlisted for a prize three times. Here are the ups and down in the birth and life of a novel.
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Third time lucky?
June 21, 2019
Shortlisted again: will it be third time lucky for my novel The Chicken Soup Murder?
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Scraps
March 11, 2019
When an idea strikes, do you feel the need to write it down?
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Maria Donovan 