Mark J. Keenan
Forgetting To Brush My Teeth
I have a morning ritual. It commences with being woken by our black labrador, Ozzie, who, at 5am every day, can be found impatiently...
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Mark J. Keenan
WRITER, TRAIL-RUNNER, ENGINEER, HUMAN
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Mark J. Keenan
- Aug 19, 2020
- 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mark J. Keenan
- Dec 1, 2016
- 1 min
FREE stories. Seriously, click here now.
FREE stories. Yes, really, they are FREE! If you are desperately excited to get to the FREE (yes, FREE!) stories then please click here...
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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