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John-John published in HCE REview, Volume III, Issue I.
One of my short stories, John-John, is published in the current issue of UCD’s literary and art journal, HCE Review. The story has previously been longlisted for the Fish Publishing International SS competition and was considered for Hennessey New Irish Writing with the Irish Times. I am so delighted that John-John has found a permanentContinue reading “John-John published in HCE REview, Volume III, Issue I.”
Charlotte and Arthur
You know how you set up a website and get excited about how you are going to blog every day and be a real writer and then (ahem) a few years later you can still count your blogs using your fingers…well it’s all about to change. Get used to the heading, as I’m beginning aContinue reading “Charlotte and Arthur”
Upcoming Writing competition.
Don’t let the heat dim your memory least you forget about the next great writing competition in Kildare. You have until July 20th to enter, all details here: http://www.michaelmullancancerfund.com/writing-competitions
Fish Publishing Long list
It’s snowing again, so what, things could be a lot worse. A welsh boy renamed Patrick might never have been captured and bought as a slave to this green (partly white today) isle and there wouldn’t have been any parades yesterday or any rivers turning green or dogs being forced to wear green ribbons leftContinue reading “Fish Publishing Long list”
For the Day that’s in it; some memories.
Cut Grass and Bogs. In April 1980, we won the Eurovision when Johnny Logan asked us all ‘What’s another Year?’ It was also an Olympics year and standing on that wonderful, teenage cusp of endless possibility and kind delusion, I thought I was destined to be a sports super star in future Games. AContinue reading “For the Day that’s in it; some memories.”
Annamaghkerrig
The wind and rain compete with each other outside cottage number 5 here in Annamaghkerrig and you’d think that someone who professes, to a numbingly boring capacity, to be a lover of Wuthering Heights, would be inspired to write. Well, you’d be wrong. What I have done is update my site (stating the obvious), sentContinue reading “Annamaghkerrig”
Winter/Spring Courses.
Bookings for the Spring/Summer course have already started to come in. If you or someone you know is interested you can find the details here https://wordpress.com/page/paulineclooney.com/284
Now enrolling for March 2017. Places fill up quickly.
Kildare Writing Centre. Now enrolling for Spring/Summer courses. Director: Pauline Clooney. Established in 2016, the Kildare Writing Centre provides courses in creative writing in comfortable surroundings with small class sizes. Now enrolling for Spring/Summer courses. ‘Writing that Short Story’. If you’ve always wanted to write something, always believed that you had a story toContinue reading “Now enrolling for March 2017. Places fill up quickly.”
