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Write On! Features: Non-Fiction, This Is Your Time by Robert Nurden

22 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Robert Nurden The less elevated role that non-fiction plays compared to the glitzy world of fiction can be detected straightaway in its lumbering prefix ‘non’. The type of writing in which facts are paramount is described in terms of what it is not. Hardly a good start! Biographers and historians like ...

Thursday Connectors: Menopausal March

21 March 2024 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Women’s Empowerment Month Special Hi all, it's Farzana, your host of Thursday Connectors with a most relatable and important two-month showcase of writing dedicated to, and coming from, some brave women about an issue that matters to so many of us: the Menopause. This is a topic many women are ...

Showcase: Alone + What Did They Take From You? + Speed Demon + Speaker For The Dead + Corpse In The Chard

20 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long Hi, I’m Jilly and I’d like to welcome you to my third March Showcase. Tomorrow is World Poetry day and, as a published poet, I’m keen to showcase some beautiful writing from our submissions folder, exploring how poetry works when compared to other styles of writing. After ...

Write On! Features: Letter To A Poet Of Colour by Hongwei Bao

15 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Hongwei Bao The title of this feature takes inspiration from a book, Letters To A Writer Of Colour, edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro (Vintage 2023). The book is useful and inspiring, but I've also noticed that all those featured are prose writers and I've yet to come across ...

Showcase: Dear Future Me + Rouhi’s Haiku + My Mother Was The Machine + Demeter’s Oasis

13 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long Hi, I’m Jilly and I’d like to welcome you to my second March Showcase. As a published poet and children’s book author, I've found courage to be a key attribute in my writing journey. With that in mind, I’d like to start with this amazing piece of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Endings

12 March 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to March’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. If you read my page in February, you’ll remember it was all about beginnings. So, in keeping with our theme of Beginnings And Endings, I’m using today’s page to share some endings. They cover endings of places that meant a lot, a ...

Write On! Features: How To Prepare For A Talk by Jilly Henderson-Long

08 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Jilly Henderson-Long I've been lucky enough to do a number of talks at schools and writing groups. As a writer, I find this an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, yet only last year, prior to delivering two talks to two separate Year Four classes at a local school, I still found ...

Showcase: You Are A Special Lady + Alice Ayres + Baby + A Place Between + Who Knows

06 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long It's interesting that March hails both International Women’s Day on the eighth and Mother’s Day on tenth of the month. And this, my first Showcase, is just a few days before each. Being a 21st century woman is not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but ...

Write On! Features: How To Begin Writing by Millie Murray

01 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Millie Murray Everyone writes, or has written at some point in their lives. The most obvious place where writing experiences have occurred, is during one’s school years. This is regardless of one’s writing ability. I’m generalising, of course, but when people state, “I would like to be a writer,” they ...

Showcase: The Beginning Of The Beginning + A Field Of Stars + Ending And Beginning Intertwined + Leap Year

28 February 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Niema Bohrayba We are under the rays of a waning gibbous moon as February comes to a close, and time has flown by. It’s my pleasure to bring you my final Showcase for this month with an eclectic mix of pieces from diverse authors, speaking to our theme of ...

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