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Am reading… →. August 2, 2015 · 7:45 pm. Book doctoring in Ballycastle. Ballycastle, as it turns out, is morphing into a literary haven of late and I for one am not complaining! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the north coast in Northern Ireland, this is a small seaside town located just 15 minutes from where I live by the Giant’s Causeway. This weekend, it played host to the Aperture Festival at Corrymeela. The Book Doctors: Glenn Patterson, Sarah Perry, Paul McVeigh and Padraig O Tuama. Congr...

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Book doctoring in Ballycastle. Are you a rapidly writing writer…? August 9, 2015 · 8:12 pm. On the BBC, which is all about the infamous Bloomsbury Group, when that’s an hour which could have been spent writing… (By the way, if anyone’s watching that – what are your thoughts? Anyway, this week I’ve only managed a bit of editing on a short story and writing a few pages of another, but I’ve started reading Sarah Perry’s. 8216;After Me Comes The Flood’. Tagged as Sarah Perry. Book doctoring in Ballycastle.

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Writerly styles… | clairesavagewriting

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Getting The Lie of the Land…. Conjuring ideas →. July 12, 2015 · 8:14 pm. I may be 30 years late to this book, but The Magician. By Raymond E. Feist is one that has always caught my eye over the years and finally, I picked it up in a pile of secondhand books a month or so ago. I’m now reading it, alongside. By Claire-Louise Bennett, and wondering why I didn’t do this sooner…. I read on with gusto and I continue to be inspired! Getting The Lie of the Land…. Conjuring ideas →. 2 responses to “. Yes, I agre...

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Newer posts →. June 5, 2016 · 9:03 am. Would I walk at these times without the pup to prompt me? Hmm… I’d love to think so but I know I would not. I never did before he arrived – not in the early morning anyway! 8211; which does tend to break up one’s train of thought – when you have too many ideas floating about, sometimes it’s just good to forget them for a while. When you return, you then feel refreshed and ready to write… Well, that’s the ideal outcome anyway! Filed under Musings on writing. When you...

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My feature, Retreating into Writing. Which was long-listed in the 2015 Thresholds International Feature Writing Competition. The Incubator Journal – author interviews:. Live It Experience It tourism website. Infuse Tea Bar interview. Cowboy charity photo shoot. Magherafelt’s Tommy Quinn on Celebrity First Dates. Re Ford promotion in Brazil. Business feature on TweetMeetEat: http:/ bit.ly/29HqIu0. Butcher loses five stars. Portuguese fans celebrate Euro win. Venture Causeway case studies. Two Cities, One ...

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Getting The Lie of the Land… | clairesavagewriting

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Writerly styles… →. July 5, 2015 · 12:28 pm. Getting The Lie of the Land…. This week I enjoyed the launch of Elaine Gaston’s debut poetry collection in Ballycastle, which saw a great crowd turn out to support her and hear some of the poems being read. 8216;The Lie of the Land’. Elaine’s collection is a beautiful mix of poems rooted in the landscape she grew up in and those she discovered on some of her travels. The collection was introduced by Medbh McGuckian, who said Elaine. This is a collection that&#...

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Conjuring ideas | clairesavagewriting

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Book doctoring in Ballycastle →. July 26, 2015 · 9:38 am. Hannah McPhillimy and Jan Carson. My own literary journey in the week past saw me attend two inspiring events – one in Belfast. And one in Ballycastle. Which added a new dimension to the story and also raised funds for the Alzheimer’s Society at the same time. The following evening I then enjoyed a poetry reading by London-based poet, Anne-Marie Fyfe, who presented her fifth collection,. House of Small Absences. 8211; while I’m at it…. View claire...

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This page I set up where I intended to post some examples of my creative writing as the blog progressed. However, I realised that if I wanted to submit short stories to journals and the like, they couldn’t be previously published, so I haven’t really ended up posting very much! I have had a few short stories published however and, while not all have online links, those which do, you can find below. 8211; Published in The Lonely Crowd journal (2015) – page 98. Page for more details on these. 8211; a poem.