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Write On! Interviews: Writer Gloria Maloney

16 January 2022 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews writer Gloria Maloney. Gloria won the Pen to Print Poetry Competition 2021 with her poem Steam Train and has since submitted further poetry for publication. WO: How would you describe your writing to someone new to it? GM: I use descriptive language involving the five senses to draw the reader ...

Write On! Features: I Started Writing By Accident by Lulu Allison

14 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Lulu Allison We often make assumptions about what we should do with our lives based on what we've already done. For me, that was drawing. I spent so much time drawing and painting as a child that it seemed obvious I would make art my subject, and indeed that is ...

Write On! Interviews: Writer Megi Adamou

09 January 2022 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews writer Megi Adamou. Migena Ramaj Adamou is a community worker who loves writing in her free time. Megi mainly writes poetry but has written a novel as well. She loves people and believes that loving others is the best 'poetry' she could ever leave behind in this ...

Write On! Features: Finding Wonder by Victoria Hopkins

07 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Victoria Hopkins Writing White Gold definitely instilled in me a sense of wonder, as my research led me into the depths of the Appalachian mountains and the discovery of a piece of British colonial history I had known very little about. It was 2015, and I had just moved from Stoke-on-Trent ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Emma Tallon

02 January 2022 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews bestselling author of gritty British organised crime thrillers, Emma Tallon. With nine books published, seven in her Tyler series and two in her Drew series, Emma looks forward to her tenth coming out in February 2022. WO: How would you describe your writing to someone new to it? ET: My ...

Write On! Audio December: Out Now!

21 December 2021 News

Write On! Audio: Storytelling From East London To The World – Episode Four Write On! Audio is a new podcast from Pen to Print. Taking the best bits from Write On! Magazine and Write On! Extra we'll bring you writing tips, features, interviews and excerpts from the work of our contributors and ...

Full Circles And Curved Balls – In Conversation With Children’s And YA Author, Sara Grant

19 December 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

By Charlotte Webb The older I get, the more I meet people like me. By that, I mean people who have spent years working in a job that was full of wonderful experiences at the time but wasn’t allowing them to fulfil their heart’s desire. Children’s writer Sara Grant is ...

Friday Features: Before, During And After A Very Lockdown Christmas

17 December 2021 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss When I had the idea for this feature – looking back at Christmas before and after the COVID-19 lockdown – we didn't have the Omicron variant and plan C, D or whatever weren't looming. It makes this look at Christmas and how we spend our time even ...

Write On! Interviews: Author David Donachie

12 December 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author David Donachie. David was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He was educated poorly at a Catholic Selective School, where he excelled in only three subjects: history, geography and truancy. He left school to work on a five-year apprenticeship in his father’s painting and decorating business, but left ...

Friday Features: What Inspires Me To Write by Mirabel Lavelle

10 December 2021 News, WriteOn Features

I am a young grandma, a teacher and the eldest daughter of a typical Maltese family. When I turned 20, I married my Sunderland sweetheart and emigrated to the North of England. It was November. I had to re-root in a very different environment to that of the traditional Mediterranean ...

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