by Orna Ross | Sep 27, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
We'll be sending out invitations shortly with full details of the Dublin launch of the Maud Gonne Society, but as an early supporter I want to make sure you get a place if you'd like to come. Save the Date: Maud Gonne Society Launch When? Friday December 6, 2024,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 22, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
My latest poetry project, Night Light: Poems for Bereavement and Other Hard Times, has sparked an accompanying initiative. In addition to the book, I’m creating a special poetry kit for bereavement counsellors and humanist celebrants. This kit is designed to integrate...
by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2024 | - MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
The image above is of Katherine Tynan, a prolific Irish writer and friend of WB Yeats, from the portrait painted by John Butler Yeats, his father. And here is the artist in an extract from my novel A Life Before, thinking about his sitter, mediated by the narrator,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 18, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, GO CREATIVE! |
Unfortunately, I have a family situation which sees me away from base at the moment and not in a position to run the October workshop next week at the usual time. However, on October 19th I'll be running a live session at the (free) online Self-Publishing Advice...
by Orna Ross | Sep 15, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
We’re returning with more powerful, independent voices from the poetry world on Instagram. This space is for all of you who love words, who find solace in verse, and who believe in the beauty of independent poetry. If you're on Instagram and you’ve got poems to share,...