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Showcase – Take It Back & I’m The Calm One

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We are celebrating BAME writers and creatives this week on Write On! Extra, so it gives me great pleasure to bring you an extract from the recently released, highly successful Take It Back, a novel by Kia Abdullah. Take It Back has been described as one of the best thrillers of the ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Standing Together

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen This week, our theme is ‘Standing Together’ celebrating BAME voices and I have some fabulous pieces to share. I’m lucky to have been sent pieces from people I work with and share my writing with, in a group we all belong to. ‘Write Next Door’ currently meets weekly on ...

Monday Memoirs: Standing Together

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King In the midst of a pandemic that has infected the world, taking family members and friends, co-workers and neighbours from us in every community, ingrained prejudices and hardships are still more present, frightening and damaging to some humans, based on nothing more than the colour of their ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Moving Sideways

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen I think we’re coming to a place where we can see the end of the worst of lockdown. We’re watching other countries with interest to see how they are treating the virus and what impact easing lockdown measures will have. Here at Write On! we’re thinking about the changes ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Values

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen In Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windemere’s Fan, Lord Darlington says that a cynic is ‘A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Like many of the things Wilde wrote, this has slipped into common usage as a saying and could equally apply to a ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Bringing The Outside In

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen The theme for this week’s magazine is Bringing The Outside In. We thought this was a good topic as, in these lockdown days, we’re all trying to bring the world into our homes in a number of ways. I’ve been settling down to watch streamed theatre and loving it. ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: A Sense Of Nature

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen The theme for this week’s extra pages is A Sense Of Nature and it's really appropriate for the times we find ourselves in. Firstly, with our false feeling of being imprisoned, we can look out and marvel at how nature goes on despite governments, a virus and the imposition ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Upskilling

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen I thought I’d start today’s page on the theme of Upskilling, with a little advice. The government is telling us to be alert. And I’m all for them telling us to be alert, as the old graffiti said: Britain needs lerts! All over the country, people are learning new skills, ...