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NaPoWriMo2020, Day 5, Poetry Challenge

I'll be honest, I didn't have a form in mind when I wrote today's poem. I just wrote a few lines while sitting in the garden and, looking...

NaPoWriMo2020, Day 4, Poetry Challenge

Day four, and I've cheated. I didn't try a new form of poetry yesterday - having spent so much time learning about the ghazal, I couldn't...

NaPoWriMo 2020, Day 3, Poetry Challenge

It seems that my #NaPoWriMo2020 is doomed to be a day behind throughout the month, as again I'm posting what I wrote the day before. But...

NaPoWriMo 2020, Day 2, Poetry Challenge

Wasn't in the poetry groove until later in the evening, so only uploading my 2nd poem now. Yesterday I tried ekphrastic - poetry that is...

Day One, NaPoWriMo 2020, Poetry Challenge

The beginning, day one. The letter 'a'. Acrostic? But no, I want to focus on trying something new. So I was interested to discover a...

Starting Soon, NaPoWriMo 2020

Not long to go until National Poetry Writing Month 2020. Here's my #NaPoWriMo notebook for this year. If I don't write a poem, the...

NaPoWriMo2020, Poetry Challenge

I did National Poetry Writing Month (#NaPoWriMo) in 2017 and 2018, but last year we were in the manic midsts of buying a house and I was...

First post of 2020

It's been ages since I blogged anything. Ages! Probably something to do with being so busy these days... but here I am at last. I was...

TEFL Classroom Management Video

Hello! So I'm currently working on a personal project (editing a book I wrote a few years ago) to do with teaching, and I found this...

Work in Progress, Magazines and More

Hi everyone! Once again its been a while since I posted, but I've been quite busy! Not only with work, but also with moving house,...

Japan with Kids

As I'm sure you know, Japan is one of my favourite places to write about. It's one of my favourite places, full-stop. So I was really...

'Jackrabbit' travel memoir

Just a quick post to say that my travel memoir 'Jackrabbit' was published today on Vamp Cat Magazine, an online literary journal. You can...

Lafcadio Hearn Article in Ireland's Own

Another exciting thing for me this week. At the start of the year I discovered a magazine that prints stories and articles that have an...

Winning entries for the Morgen Bailey Comp

Hi everyone, I haven't posted much recently as I've been busy with NaNoWriMo2018 (40,000 words written so far...) but just a quick...

Second Place in Writing Magazine Competition

Hi everyone, more good news from the writing world of Celia. I've been subscribing to the Writing Magazine for a few months now and have...

Retelling the Classics - My Published Books

So after not having blogged for months, I now have two posts in two days because I've received some more good news. These came through...

Second Place in Short Story Competition

Just a quick post to share some good news. I've been entering a number of writing competitions this year, and have been keeping an eye on...

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