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- Five Points from the World Building and Infrastructure Panel – Continuum 15, Other Worlds.
- Creating Stories from Objects
- Five Questions to Ask of Your Characters
- Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 – Longlist announced!
- Three Easy Ways to Amp up Descriptions of Place
- Revisiting the Greeks
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- Week One – May Gibbs, Creative Time Fellowship
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- Mini-review – The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo, 2014
- Making a Creative Life
- My Reader’s Journal continued
- A Writer’s Masterclass
- Introducing the Gabriele 25.
- Decided on my New Year intention already!
- Re-discovering the Benefits of a Writing Residency
- Clifden, Galway and a memory of my father
- Wild and Woolly
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- Yeats and an Airbnb disaster in Dublin
- A Night with John le Carré, George Smiley and Ms Hospitality.
- Secondary Worlds and Cityscapes – Continuum Convention, Part 3
- From Ballads to Gaslight
- Continuum Convention 13 – the first course.
- Nostaligia
- Me and John Berryman
- Beautiful Failures.
- 2017 – Resolutions
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- Tea and Empathy
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- Oh my goodness – it’s Spring!
- What’s new – good question!
- To fragment. Or not. The question.
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- A rose by any other name…
- This Reading Year…
- After the chaos of Christmas…
- The Masked Ball