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Writing | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. Rip it up and start again. Research or a notebook obsession? My mother was not one for respecting privacy, so I kept my diary with me at all times, and slept with it under my pillow. No one read it but me. I was out with a friend when I saw a notebook I liked. It was A5 spiral bound with a picture of a parrot on the cover. ‘Let me get that for you,’ she said, and out of nowhere, I started writing poetry in that book, and keeping a diary. The paper filled a build...

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Short stories | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. No pumpkin – a story instead. When I was a child, we celebrated Halloween at home. We didn’t dress up, but we did bob for apples in a washing-up bowl, or attempt to take a bite out of apples strung from the beam in the living room, hands clasped behind our backs. Maria reads The Man in Black at Horrorshow. Happy Halloween, one and all. May your pumpkins glow brightly in the dark of the night. Read The Man in Black. Beware, those with a nervous disposition….

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Wandering Words | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. Walking, walking; writing, writing. On a cold Valentine’s evening, in a room above a pub where the old sash windows didn’t quite close, I heard Katherine Pierpoint and John Gallas read poetry. The week before, I went to the University of Kent to hear Katharine Norbury read from. Her superb memoir, which was one of my favourite reads of 2015. What links all three, and got me thinking, is that travelling inspires their writing. The Alphabet of Ugly Animals. I used...

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Maria C. McCarthy Events | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. Maria is taking a break from readings and events. Details of events featuring Cultured Llama Publishing’s authors can be found here. November 27, 2013 9:35 am. Feed for comments on this post. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Subscribe to my mailing list:. Rajasthan Brass Band #globalsounds. Listening to this, reading this #neilyoung. Reflections - a unique fusion of Elizabeth Lamont's glass artwork and @VanessaGebbie.

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For the love (and fear) of short stories | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. For the love (and fear) of short stories. Here are a few popular misconceptions about short stories:. They are easy to knock off in an afternoon – after all, they are short. Wrong – it takes a very long time for the writer to reduce a story to the fewest, best words. It’s like writing poetry in that respect. In fact poets write very good short stories for that reason. See poet Kate Clanchy’s excellent short story collection. The Not-Dead and the Saved. Tom-Gallo...

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Competitions | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. For the love (and fear) of short stories. Here are a few popular misconceptions about short stories:. They are easy to knock off in an afternoon – after all, they are short. Wrong – it takes a very long time for the writer to reduce a story to the fewest, best words. It’s like writing poetry in that respect. In fact poets write very good short stories for that reason. See poet Kate Clanchy’s excellent short story collection. The Not-Dead and the Saved. Tom-Gallo...

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Nature writing | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. Nostalgia – a longing for a past that is not our own. 8220;I heard the news today, oh boy…” of the death of George Martin. The cacophony at the end of The Beatles’ ‘A Day in the Life’ is magnificent, and I was hoping to hear that; the track that BBC 6 Music chose to play first, though, was ‘In My Life’, a nostalgic song. Memorandum: Poems for the Fallen. There is a photograph that sits on the cover of my cousin’s pamphlet,. A Long Long Way. I must confess to wat...

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Maria C. McCarthy As Long as it Takes | Maria C. McCarthy

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Maria C. McCarthy. The Word from the Shed. As Long as it Takes. By Maria C. McCarthy. As Long as it Takes. Gives voice to the lost generation of Irish women who sailed to England to look for work in the middle of the twentieth century. Maura Flaherty and her daughters struggle with identity, belonging, love, sexuality and grief and dilemmas such as whether to like punk or Elvis. Charles Lambert, author of. With a Zero at its Heart. The Friday Project, 2014). December 5, 2013 10:40 am. Reflections - a uni...