Hello and good morning! Today's article documents Nonô's more writing-oriented agenda during the first month of the year, January 2024.

In the last few days and on the first day of the year, Nonô has been reviewing her next prose book "Diary of a Journey to China" with her father, as a beta reader.

31/12/2023 - The following is a photographic record of the last day of the year, the toilet chosen by Nonô to celebrate New Year's Eve. Between written revisions, it was time to celebrate.

01/01/2024 - The first outfit of the year 2024, with an eye on the Year of the Dragon, which began in China on 04/02/2024. Another source of inspiration to keep writing. 

08/01/2024 - On this day Nonô was preparing her participation in two different collections:

- "Hello Poetry 3" - Editora Notag

- IV Volume of the Collection of Love Letters, entitled " Three Quarters of a Love" - Chiado Books.

12/01/2024 - Nonô was at the Sintra Library again working on her next book, soon to be published, "Diary of a Journey to China".

13/01/2024 - Nonô attended a workshop at the Biblioteca Municipal das Galveias "Escrita criativa Diarística" and in the afternoon she was in a nearby café working on her new book soon to be published "Diary of a Journey to China".

20/01/2024 - Nonô was at the Sintra Library working on her new book, soon to be published, "Diary of a Journey to China".

27/01/2024 - Nonô attended the workshop "What to write after reading", at the Galveias Library, between 10.30 and 12.30. 

27/01/2024 - Between 4pm and 6pm,  Nonô attended the Poetic Tertulia led by João Dórdio at Tasca do Strauss, in S. Pedro de Sintra. Unfortunately, something went wrong during filming and there are no video records to show here. 

29/01/2024 - Nonô, at her most entrepreneurial, went to deliver a copy of "Poetic Animals" to the National Library of Portugal so that it could be included in the online catalog. She also took the opportunity to visit an exhibition on China to find inspiration for her book and to photograph statues of writers. 

In the only photo I took, I kept my eyes closed. Things that happen.

31/01/2024 - Between 9pm and 10pm Nonô attended the online meeting of the Womens AM Book Club, this time the book to be read was " You're a badass" by Jen Sincero. 

In this week's article, I showed you the main events in January. On April 5th, I'll talk about the events Nonô attended in February. Next week's blog article will be about the "Literary and poetic events - April 2024" agenda.

All that's left to talk about are the trips to the beach to write, the morning walks with my cell phone in hand to record my daydreams and a whole life that exists beyond writing.

I'll be back here on the blog next Friday. For today, I bid you farewell with poetic kisses

M.ª Leonor Costa (Poesias da Nonô)