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Friday Feature: Cooking + Books With Dina Begum

By Dina Begum My Inspiration I’ve written for most of my life, mainly in the form of short stories, articles, essays and poetry. My love of food, coupled with writing, inspired me to start a food blog several years ago. This led to collating recipes, hoping one day they’d go into a ...

Friday Feature: To Review Or Not To Review

By Claire Buss Like most writers, I adore reading and I love getting books as presents. I love it when people recommend books to me and I belong to three book clubs, which means I always have a huge TBR (to be read) pile and I'm never short of something to ...

Friday Feature: My Journey To Podcasting

By Don Scoby How I Got Into Podcasting Writing On Whidbey Island started when talking with my friend and fellow author, Tom Trimbath. Somehow, one of our discussions about becoming audiobook narrators morphed into the idea of co-producing and hosting a writing-themed podcast. The pieces rather fit… Tom pointed out there ...

Sharna Jackson: Game Changer

The Writer. Curator and Artistic Director speaks to Write On!’s Juneha Chowdhury about writing for children, the importance of being visible, and why the Mystery genre is so appealing. On a bleak and chilly morning, there's nothing like a good interview to warm things up. With pen and notebook in hand, ...

Friday Feature: With A Little Help From Our Friends

Authors Katharine Johnson (Katy), G D Harper (Glyn) and Helen Matthews talk to Write On! about ways authors can find more readers by supporting each other, and how they came together to form the 'Noir Collective'. (Authors pictured in featured image) Imagine it’s publication day. Perhaps for your debut novel. You want ...

Friday Feature: The Guilty Writer

By Claire Buss Hello, my name is Claire and I’m a guilty writer. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing and I still can’t get over the fact that other people enjoy reading my books. But the process of writing itself is not always a smooth path. Let me explain. Getting Up ...

Friday Feature: Five Top Tips To Staying Hopeful

By Juneha Chowdhury Hope, like love, is a four-letter word with immense healing power. Like love, it has the ability to fill a void, to lift a spirit but, most importantly, it allows us to alter our perception of the world; giving our lives an uplift, too. When we're overwhelmed by ...

As A… Creative Writing Tutor

Write On!'s Lynda Shepherd interviews Creative Writing Tutor Sarah-Jane Page. Represented by Ella Kahn of DKW Literary Agency, Sarah-Jane is a writer of fiction whose short stories have appeared in a range of publications, including Mslexia. She was awarded a place on the Arts’ Council Escalator Literature Scheme with author Katharine ...

Friday Feature: Write Right

Write Right: Brave New Words In Brentwood by Patrick Forsyth (Chair of Brentwood Writers’ Circle) Sadly, with Covid difficulties continuing, so many of our favourite activities are currently impossible. One that can very much continue, of course, is writing. Writing takes many forms: long or short, fiction or non-fiction, and from ...

Man Of London, Creator Of Worlds

Bestselling urban fantasy icon, Ben Aaronovitch, shares why joy and diversity are at the heart of good writing…and other tales. by L.M. Towton (Michelle Sutton and Lauren Towers) After months of Write On! Extra meetings and editing sessions with Lauren, I’m now a dab hand at video calls. As August draws to a ...