Fict: Katherine Dolan's blog

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The Tear Bottle by Annemarie Jutel

This post is the very first in a series of interviews I'm planning with talented storytellers about the creative process and also about how they bring their works to light. I've known Annemarie Jutel for a long time and so am pretty familiar with her incredible energy and varied accomplishments. She is a critical diagnosis scholar and Tumuaki ō te Kura...

Running Away from Newtownards

We've been having an unsettled week here in Northern Ireland. The house we booked for December turned out to have an intractable internet problem...

Multifarious Fausts

What with staying 'safe at home', freezing temperatures and 3pm sunsets, this autumn has been a great time for finally getting around to reading...

The Story Problem: Five Tips to Tame a Plot

Lately I've been wrestling a ferocious shape-shifting beast of immense proportions that breathes fire, spits venom in my eyes and generally makes a nuisance...

20 Scenes of War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece was published in its entirety in 1869, 57 years after the French Invasion of Russia, but it was a period...