by Orna Ross | Jan 1, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
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by Orna Ross | Jun 15, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
(image: Gold detail on the façade of the Folies Bergère cabaret music hall in Paris, by Maurice Pico (1926) ‘Whatever' is a poem about not needing to find or fix ourselves. It speaks to the joy of creating from the ‘undulating being' of an imperfect life...
by Orna Ross | Jun 13, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
For almost two decades, on and off, I’ve been writing about Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats, this couple who were separated by passion and politics, yet who remain forever coupled in the imagination of countless readers. First came A Dance in Time (Penguin, 2008), now...
by Orna Ross | Jun 11, 2025 | Go Creative! |
Thank you for your patience while we make some more changes to the Go Creative! program. I'm running a poll so if you'd like your opinion to be included in those changes, check it out below. I've made some decisions already. The podcast will resume next week, with...
by Orna Ross | Jun 4, 2025 | Go Creative! |
In this episode, we unpack “creative presence”—the simple, moment-to-moment awareness that silences self-criticism, steadies focus, and primes the brain for the hallowed state of flow. Discover the neuroscience linking presence to peak creativity, hear small practices...
by Orna Ross | Jun 1, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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by Orna Ross | May 31, 2025 | Go Creative! |
When waves of sorrow or stress are assailing us, how do we keep ourselves from being pulled under? In this profoundly personal episode, I record from the riptides of bereavement—my mother passed a month ago—to show how creatives and creativists can transmute every...
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...