Elizabeth Rose Murray

I’ve finally succumbed to necessity and have decided to start a new blog. Serendipitypoetry has been good to me but it was started a long time ago and it’s a journey; one that needs to come to a polite end. It’s been difficult to maintain this blog for many reasons; other commitments, lack of time [...]

I’ve decided to try and do a Friday Shout Out to celebrate my favourite things each week… Hero of the week goes to #twitterxmassingle… The lovely and kind hearted – as well as talented – folk who put together this awesome charity song can still be supported for just 99 cents over on iTunes. All [...]

Dear Derek, Before I went away on my November trip, I told you about this sparkling new blog that I was going to build – after mastering loads of new technical skills and being generally downright awesome in the blogging department. But the fact of the matter is – I suck at technical stuff and [...]

I’ve not disappeared – well, only for a month or so. I’m currently in Australia until the middle of December, on holiday. I’ll be returning to the blog towards the end of December. This was me last time I went: There’ll be lots of pics from this time too. See you back here in December! [...]

Chaired by author Sarah Webb, and with a stellar panel consisting of; Puffin Ireland editor, Paddy O’Doherty, children’s book writer and illustrator Oisin McGann, literary agent Julia Churchill and debut novelist Anna Carey, this was an extremely informative, yet fun, evening for anyone interested in writing for children and young people. The audience consisted mainly [...]

(This is a cross post with my On The Front Row blog on writing.ie) The Cork International Short Festival certainly closed on a finale as Edna O’Brien scooped the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, worth 35,000 euro – a well deserved and impressive result from a prolific and much admired writer. Edna’s acceptance speech was [...]

It’s festival time again; this time, the Cork International Short Story Festival (previously Frank O’Connor Short Story Festival) which takes place from September 14th – 18th in The Metropole Hotel, Cork. I’m privileged to be the official blogger for the festival – after all, you can never comlain if you love what you do! Over [...]

I recently read on Twitter that social media was too much of a distraction for writers and, as a result, writers should steer clear. Although I understand that tools such as Facebook and Twitter can be time consuming and, therefore, take away from the time spent on putting ink on paper – I also felt [...]

It all started with this on my friend’s Facebook page: These images really got me thinking, because this pretty much sums up many people’s attitudes to writers and writing. Whenever I tell people I’m a writer, living in the countryside, I always get the same reaction; “Ah, that’ll be inspiring. You can look at the [...]

Seeing as I’ve been so lax at updating my own blog – I thought it’s only fair that I celebrate those people who are much better at keeping their own blogs updated. And not only are these people brilliant at keeping their blogs going at a respectable pace, they’re also posting amazing, intriguing and well [...]