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Friday Feature: The Challenges Of Publishing A New Novel During The Current Crisis

12 June 2020 News, WriteOn Features

by Owen Knight I spent a year writing my new, fourth, novel Another Life, a work of speculative fiction conceived as a twenty-first-century version of It’s A Wonderful Life. In 2019, once confident of completion, I began pitching to agents and publishers. I compiled a list of 72 agents and 185 potentially ...

Thursday Connectors: Value Your Voices

11 June 2020 News, Thursday Connectors

Welcome to another great edition of Thursday Connectors with me your host, Farzana Hakim. This week, we’re going 'Down Under' to Queensland and we’ll be finding out about a Barking and Dagenham programme to get youngsters writing. But first, let’s talk a little about what’s happening across the globe. This past ...

Showcase – COVID-19: Storm’s Perspective & You Made Me Cry

10 June 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This week, we have a short story offering a unique point of view on the current pandemic and another first for Showcase! The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink our perspectives on many things we once took for granted. Tricia Wadsworth's story considers the global crisis from the point of ...

Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020

09 June 2020 News

Get Involved The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. Read at least six library books of your choice to collect rewards along the way – all for FREE. There’s a website to add to the fun too! Children can take part in the Challenge online at sillysquad.org.uk. Use your library card ...

Love Letters to the World Writing Project

08 June 2020 News

UPDATE 27 May 2020 Pen to Print are pleased to announce that we will be supporting Love Letters to the World for the rest of the summer for 15 weeks, in addition to the orginal 4 week project so will now run until 15 September 2020. This new online creative writing workshop ...

As An… Editor: Jay Arscott

07 June 2020 News, WriteOn Interviews

This week Write On! interviews editor Jay Arscott. A professional freelance editor since February 2018, Jay credits his background, and aphantasia for his eagle-eyed talent; spotting errors others simply don’t see. His work, and his affiliation with The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading are incredibly important to him but ...

Saturday Spotlight: Latest Book Releases w/c 6th June

06 June 2020 News, Saturday Spotlight

by Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On! At Write On! and Pen to Print we want to help connect authors and readers, so we've created a Spotlight page every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads available. The list has been curated by Lisa Rouiller and myself, based on books ...

Friday Feature: Creating The Basilwade Chronicles

05 June 2020 News, WriteOn Features

by Dawn Knox Credit: Lucy Lawson Photography When I started writing the first chapter of The Basilwade Chronicles, I had no idea it would eventually be included in a book. It was simply a short story written to present at one of the Basildon Writers’ Group meetings, where once a month, ...

Thursday Connectors: Africa Away

04 June 2020 News, Thursday Connectors

by Farzana Hakim Hi, all. It’s Farzana here, for our latest edition of Thursday Connectors. As promised, this week I’m taking you on a trip across one of the most culturally rich and diverse continents in the world: Africa. We’ll be connecting to writer friends from Morocco, Kenya and Tunisia, all ...

First Story & National Writing Day on 24 June 2020

03 June 2020 News

To support National Writing Day on 24 June 2020 First Story are sharing a new video tutorials and highlighting some resources from their partners. Check out their new resources we have shared the writing tutorials on our site to see more go to our Films and Podcasts page Happy writing! Snap and ...

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