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Monday Moments: Changing Form To Reconnect With Your Writing

02 September 2024 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall Our theme this month is ‘Change’ and I’ve been thinking about how this idea relates to the act of writing itself. There are myriad ways to approach writing – so much so that it can feel daunting to get anything down on paper in the first place. ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases August 2024

31 August 2024 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, playwrights and audiences, so we've created a Spotlight page on the last Saturday of the month, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Historical Accuracy + Character

30 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Welcome back to our Mini Masterclass series, designed to provide you with expert insights into the essential elements of storytelling from five of the authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel award. Last week, C.E. McGill, Francesca de ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Plot, Setting & Narrative Voice

16 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation At the heart of every great story there is a careful balance of essential elements that work together to captivate readers. In this two-part Mini Masterclass series, five authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize explore the core components that ...

Write On! Features: Writing Through Grief by Preetha Leela Chockalingam

02 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Preetha Leela Chockalingam Coming from a family of avid readers and writers, I was unusually slow to both reading and writing. In my very South Indian family, it was expected that you would love books. I was eight and struggled with reading. By contrast, my sister, Deepa, who was only ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases July 2024

27 July 2024 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, playwrights and audiences, so we've created a Spotlight page on the last Saturday of the month, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list ...

Posts For Unprecedented Times

21 July 2024 Monday Moments, News, Saturday Spotlight, Thoughtful Tuesday, Thursday Connectors, WriteOn Features, WriteOn Interviews, WriteOn Showcase

(Bluesky/Instagram: @madeleinefwhite) We are transitioning to a new website, so this is a holding message. My September Editor's introduction will be with you soon. In the meantime, do share your work with us around this season's theme (October-December) of '(R)Evolution.' Our submissions guidelines here. Also a head up - our new issue will ...

Write On! Features: Now Your Work Is Organised

19 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mary Walsh My last feature gave you the story of me trying to organise my work. Have you done yours yet? Are there still nooks and crannies filled with odd bits of writing? Have you retrieved all this precious treasure and bullied it into some sort of order? I hope ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Change

09 July 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my Thoughtful Tuesday page for July. I’m going to be sharing a lot of writing about change, our current theme here at Write On! I’d like to start with some writing about a massive change: the change of moving from one country to another, one culture to ...

Write On! Features: The London Typewriters

05 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Natalia The London Typewriters story began in 2012, when we went searching for something special and quirky to start as an independent enterprise. After many trips to a variety of car-boot sales we failed to find anything unique, but then one day an old broken typewriter caught the eye of Alex ...

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