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Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases January

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, so we've created a Spotlight page every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads available. The list has been curated by Lisa Roullier and myself, based on books ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

Write On! Interview: As A Poet… Gboyega Odubanjo

Raised in Barking and Dagenham, British-Nigerian poet Gboyega Odubanjo speaks to Write On! about his work and residency at Rabbits Road Institute Library. Rabbits Road Institute Library was established in 2016 in a former Carnegie Library in Manor Park, East London. The books are all nominated by friends and collaborators of ...

Friday Features: It Happened In Essex by Colin Payne

By Colin Payne It’s not often that two branches of the arts get to work together on a fund-raising drive for NHS volunteers but, recently, Basildon Writers’ Group released a book to help raise much-needed funds for Basildon Hospital Radio, BHR 87.7 FM. The volunteers at the radio station had to leave ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Resolutions

By Eithne Cullen Happy New Year! We ended 2020 on the theme of Hope and carry on our new hopes into 2021. I thought I’d start the year off thinking about the way we all make resolutions as one year ends and the next begins. Sometimes these resolutions are made as the ...

Write On! Interview: As An Author… R J Gould

This week Write On! interviews author R J Gould. Richard writes under the pseudonym R J Gould, for reasons soon to be explained. He has finally become a full-time author, having recently stepped down from working for a national educational charity. He is both traditionally and self-published, but from now on ...

Monday Moments: Marching Ever Onwards

Introduced by Holly King January is the month of resetting: resolutions, starting a new year, a new you, a new future. Yet it’s never made much sense to me, because the calendar year is an external construct. You can’t reset in any literal way, and I’ve never been able to keep ...