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Mark J. Keenan
WRITER, TRAIL-RUNNER, ENGINEER, HUMAN
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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...
Mark J. Keenan
Dec 29, 20203 min read


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
Aug 19, 20203 min read


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
Apr 30, 20192 min read


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
Jul 26, 20171 min read


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
Mar 18, 20172 min read


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 17, 20173 min read


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
Jan 8, 20172 min read


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 14, 20162 min read


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 11, 20164 min read


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
Dec 1, 20161 min read


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...
Mark J. Keenan
Oct 27, 20161 min read
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