by Orna Ross | Jan 1, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
This is my blog and reader member feed, a blend of member-only exclusives and posts open to all. Whether you're a member, or just a passerby, draw up your chair and scroll down to enjoy!
by Orna Ross | Mar 20, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
This is a post I wish I didn't have to write. As you may already know, my mother was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm. The medics have explained that this lesion will eventually rupture and bleed, ending her life — but they can’t say when. It could...
by Kayleigh Brindley | Mar 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Go Creative! |
Below please find the preview of our next Member-Only Open Studio and your Go Creative! Planners for April 2025. The next Open Studio will run on Thursday April 3rd and I look forward to seeing you live, if possible (replay will issue the following week as an audio)....
by Orna Ross | Feb 28, 2025 | The Rest |
A Creative Retreat in an Extraordinary Setting We are thrilled to welcome you to the Creative Retreat at Rossnaree House, a magnificent country house, working farm, and artist’s studio steeped in history, art, and creative inspiration. Set on a 200-acre estate,...
by Shanaya Wagh | Feb 21, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
“The Mothers Who Never Forgot:” An Online Talk by Dr. Margaret Ward + Q&A On February 26, 2025, acclaimed historian Dr. Margaret Ward, author of Unmanageable Revolutionaries and Maud Gonne’s biographer, will give a presentation, followed by a Q&A. She'll...
by Orna Ross | Feb 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
Big social media news this week — Orna Ross Publications is moving to Pinterest I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram due to Zuckerberg’s recent elimination of fact-checkers and general Trumpery. (I left X when Elon Musk bought it). It's been a difficult...
by Shanaya Wagh | Feb 17, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
Any future tour guide stopping at a statue of Gonne would have to devote considerable time to do justice to her complexity and robustness. Given the paucity of memorials to women adorning our capital, it would surely be a worthwhile addition. Diarmaid Ferriter says in...
by Orna Ross | Feb 16, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
Yes, Valentine’s Day is over—-but we all know love isn’t something to chuck away with the paper card. So here’s a poem to keep the love going–to remind us that we are not accidents, but offerings. My Only Answer: A Poem Don’t tell me you are just an accident who...
by Orna Ross | Feb 12, 2025 | The Rest |
The Seven Stages of the Creative Process: Workshop Replay is now available to Author and Workshop patrons on Patreon. Access here
by Orna Ross | Feb 7, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
I’m coming to the end of the final edits of ‘A Crowd of Stars: WB Yeats Poems to Maud Gonne with Commentary by the Muse’ This book was offered as a Kickstarter bonus if our statue campaign for Maud Gonne managed to cross our stretch goal of target £15,000. We did… and...
by Orna Ross | Feb 5, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Go Creative! |
Go Creative! February Workshop is tomorrow! Looking forward to meeting with you LIVE if you can make it…or in replay afterwards. Bring your creative challenges and get them sorted. In this session, we'll be exploring the seven stages of the creative process, applying...