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Thursday Connectors: Lockdown Loneliness

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Hi, all. It’s Farzana here again for this week’s Thursday Connectors. Today, I’m moving sideways from our usual format of going overseas, to bring you a lockdown story. Instead, I’ve asked my lovely colleagues here at Write On!  to give me their take on what lockdown loneliness means to them. For ...
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Showcase – Displaced & The Philosopher’s Daughters

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I am pleased to present two wonderful examples of fabulous prose this week in Showcase. First up, we have another of the excellent entries we received in our Flash Fiction competition a couple of months ago. Nicola Franklin's Displaced uses the 300-word limit to maximum effect, welcoming us into a warm and ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Moving Sideways

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by Eithne Cullen I think we’re coming to a place where we can see the end of the worst of lockdown. We’re watching other countries with interest to see how they are treating the virus and what impact easing lockdown measures will have. Here at Write On! we’re thinking about the changes ...

Monday Memoirs: Moving Sideways

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Introduced by Holly King Another week of this new type of living has started and I never feel quite settled into it, despite being in one place almost constantly. When I speak to family or friends and refer back to when lockdown started, or what I was doing at the beginning ...

Thursday Connectors: Value Your Voices

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Welcome to another great edition of Thursday Connectors with me your host, Farzana Hakim. This week, we’re going 'Down Under' to Queensland and we’ll be finding out about a Barking and Dagenham programme to get youngsters writing. But first, let’s talk a little about what’s happening across the globe. This past ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Values

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by Eithne Cullen In Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windemere’s Fan, Lord Darlington says that a cynic is ‘A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Like many of the things Wilde wrote, this has slipped into common usage as a saying and could equally apply to a ...