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Aug 19
3 min

Bread and Duck

‘What’s for dinner, Mum?’ ‘Bread and duck under the table.’ When I was growing up this was a daily conversation with my mum. Eventually, ...

Meditate. Move. Read. Write. Listen. Be.

Mark J. Keenan

Apr 30, 2019
2 min

Meditate. Move. Read. Write. Listen. Be.

These were the first six words I wrote on beginning my residency at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre last week. And they s...

Mark J. Keenan

Jul 26, 2017
1 min

Sometimes, I write fiction.

Occasionally, I let people read it. I am currently working on my first, full-length, fiction manuscript. It's challenging, and sometimes ...

Mark J. Keenan

Mar 18, 2017
2 min

This is a door

But it’s not just any door. Not at all, because it is the door to one of the retreat cabins at Katharine’s Place, the Katharine Susannah ...

Mark J. Keenan

Jan 17, 2017
3 min

Listen to your broccoli

A splash of routine, a pinch of process and a dash of intuition. This is the recipe that I am hoping will create a successful second draf...

Mark J. Keenan

Jan 8, 2017
2 min

bird by bird

At 11:40 PM on New Years Eve, I was reading. My wife was next to me on the couch catching Pokemon, my 19 year old son was having a snooze...

Mark J. Keenan

Dec 14, 2016
2 min

Running and writing in the forest

John Forrest National Park, on the eastern edge of Perth, is Western Australia’s oldest national park. It is a beautiful place with two n...

Mark J. Keenan

Dec 11, 2016
4 min

Slaying the NANO-beast

NANOWRIMO, you are a foul-smelling beast, wretched in your hunger for words, eating at my soul, devouring all my time, awakening me in th...

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Mark J. Keenan

Dec 1, 2016
1 min

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FREE stories. Yes, really, they are FREE! If you are desperately excited to get to the FREE (yes, FREE!) stories then please click here a...

Mark J. Keenan

Oct 27, 2016
1 min

Reading: The Fireman, by Joe Hill

Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind ...

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Mark J. Keenan

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