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Friday Features: Global Dreams – Publishing Internationally by Anika Scott

05 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

When my phone buzzed, I was enjoying a chocolate sundae and cappuccino at the Italian ice cream café near the German town where I live. It was a couple of weeks after my debut novel The German Heiress had been picked up by publishers in the UK and US. That ...

Showcase: Hitler’s V2 Rocket Just Missed Us (Part Two)

03 February 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, Readers. We’re shaking things up a bit here on Showcase. Dan Cross, our Associate Editor, has carried this torch since Showcase began, bringing our readers dozens of creative stories, poems and articles to enjoy. Now, each month, one of the Write On! team will edit the Showcase pages. All of ...

The Pen to Print Awards 2020 – Competition Results

02 February 2021 Blog, News

By Lena Smith, Library Project Manager - London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. The Pen to Print Awards are our annual celebration of Pen to Print’s work where we announce the winners of our competitions. The Pen to Print Awards 2020, were postponed from June 2020 and we were pleased to ...

Monday Moments: Storytelling Week

01 February 2021 Monday Moments, News

Introduced by Holly King I’d like to tell you a story. The first full-time job I had was in an investment call centre. We were given two weeks of training before being let out ‘on the floor’, and even though I only spent six months there, I was given lots of ...

Write On! Interview: Mark Haddon – Facing The Darkness Together

31 January 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

Bestselling author, artist and all-round creative talks to Holly King about making empathy and extraordinary characters matter. As I join the Zoom meeting for our interview, cursing Dell for placing the camera at the bottom of my laptop, I think about what limits a virtual interview has. No smells, background sounds, ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases January

30 January 2021 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 Roullier and myself, based on books ...

Friday Features: Judge A Book By Its Cover by Carol Van Den Hende

29 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

How Authors Can Inspire Great Design By Carol Van Den Hende, MBA Why design? When we consider storytelling, we usually think of the written or spoken words that make up the tale. However, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of book covers to evoke emotion and spark interest in a story. After all, humans ...

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Showcase: Hitler’s V2 Rocket Just Missed Us (Part One)

27 January 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

After a double dose of poetry examining contemporary society last week, let's enjoy a trip back in time this week, with a story set during World War Two. Through the eyes of our author, Brian Rudge, we experience the child's perspective of what it meant to live through the Blitz: how ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

25 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

Write On! Interview: As A Poet… Gboyega Odubanjo

24 January 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

Raised in Barking and Dagenham, British-Nigerian poet Gboyega Odubanjo speaks to Write On! about his work and residency at Rabbits Road Institute Library. Rabbits Road Institute Library was established in 2016 in a former Carnegie Library in Manor Park, East London. The books are all nominated by friends and collaborators of ...

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