by Orna Ross | Aug 11, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, GO CREATIVE! |
Tuesday saw the funeral of that brave, beautiful, belligerent soul, Sinéad O'Connor. In Ireland we have a saying when a great person dies. “We'll never see their like again.” We need to see more like Sinéad O'Connor. For that to happen, we all need to see...
by Orna Ross | May 24, 2023 | GO CREATIVE! |
Please join me in congratulating this week's #IndiePoetryPlease Contest Winner: Ashe Kaye (@afkayewrites), and their winning entry – When the House Creaks 🏆 When the House Creaks I am Forget Me Not's and “honey, suckle on these hips” like...
by Orna Ross | Aug 1, 2022 | GO CREATIVE! |
I'm taking some weeks away from the blog, and other activities, as we go through an upgrade here at Orna Ross Publications and also at the Alliance of Independent Authors, and then head off to beautiful Puglia, south Italy, for a holiday. Back on September 5th. If...
by Orna Ross | Apr 20, 2022 | Go Creative! Podcast |
As yesterday's poem suggested, creativity is everywhere, touching every human life, every minute of every day. We feel this in its inner manifestions: intuitions, nudges, insights, longings, feelings and we see, taste, touch, hear and smell it in its outer...
by Orna Ross | Mar 14, 2022 | GO CREATIVE! |
I'm taking a bit of a blog break from now until Sunday 27th March 2022–heading off to the Canary Islands for some much-needed rest and relaxation. And posting is likely to be a bit sporadic after that, as we are launching ALLi's 10th-anniversary celebrations at...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2021 | GO CREATIVE! |
We're back! Sorry it all took a little longer than expected. No matter how “realistic” I try to be, my deadlines for large projects are invariably, like Samuel Johnson's said of remarriage, the triumph of hope over experience. But here we are. We're still...