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...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2021 | Go Creative! |
I am taking a blog break as I’m working on a new website that will launch here in November, together with a new podcast. The theme of website, blog and podcast will be “Exploring Histories & Mysteries”, with a closer focus on my fiction and poetry. I hope it...
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2021 | Go Creative! |
Do you write about environmental, eco, planetary themes… or follow a writer who does? Heads up about the Orna Ross Green Stories Novel Prize. I'm delighted to sponsor this prize, organized by Denise Baden at Southampton University, with a mission to create a...
by Orna Ross | Dec 25, 2020 | Go Creative! |
Happy Chrismukkah, dear reader, if you live in one of the Judeo-Christian influenced lands. Or Happy Makaraa Sankranti (Hindi), Yalda (Peruvian), Las Posadas (Mexican), or Grianstad (pagan Gaelic). However you celebrate the festival of rebirth and renewal that...
by Orna Ross | Sep 29, 2020 | Go Creative! |
My non-fiction books now carry the following disclaimer: Like all ALLi guides, this book uses they and their as singular pronouns, rather than he and him, or she and her, a style choice based on the word’s common spoken usage, inclusivity, lexical elegance, and long...
by Orna Ross | Feb 8, 2019 | Fiction, Go Creative! |
Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking and I'm at work on Book 2 of my Yeats trilogy, Dancing in the Wind (while continuing the incubation work on the final novel of my Irish trilogy, In the Hour.) That's the fiction fun around here at the moment. So how do you...