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Friday Feature: What’s Wrong With Reading Comics?

Originally published by Neal Zetter on CCCP Workshops website on June 20, 2020  What's wrong with children (or anyone) reading comics? Nothing! Just because reading material includes pictures as well as words, that does not make it inferior. In fact, I wouldn't be a successful author/poet if I had not immersed ...

Thursday Youth Connectors: A New Day, A New Face

by Sameer Iqbal Hello, I'm Sameer and I'm new to the Write On! Extra community. You might be wondering why there’s a different face on the article today, expecting Farzana’s (my mum’s) picture with her bright yellow scarf and big smile, as she introduces another week with a new idea before launching ...
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Showcase: The Tunnel + Sustainable Olympics 2020

Our theme this week is 'Many Faces, Many Masks', and the first piece to feature on 'Showcase' encapsulates this perfectly; not just what it means to carry ourselves differently in various scenarios and companies, but also why we create these masks for ourselves in the first place. This anonymous submission ...

Monday Moments: Different Hats And Different Faces

Introduced by Holly King Welcome back! A new month, a new time, a new opportunity to see where our creativity will take us. I’ve thought a lot about 'Different Hats And Different Faces', realising there are many ways you can take this theme. Initially, it can seem obvious on the surface; ...

As A… Writer: Anne Macaulay

This week, Write On! chats with poet, Anne Macaulay. Anne loves poetry: writing, reading, performing, translating, reviewing. A regular at Barking’s 'Spoken Not Stirred', she has performed in Amsterdam and many London venues, including The Barbican and Sadlers Wells. Published in several anthologies, she was also one of six featured poets ...

Friday Feature: Insane Productivity Hacks For Lazy People

Originally published by Maria Riegger on June 23, 2020 Today I’d like to share with you some fantastic tips from the book Insane Productivity for Lazy People by Andrii Sedniev. The main thing I love about this book is that it gives the reader practical tips that you can implement immediately. I’ve been using one of his ...

Thursday Connectors: Impressions From The Past

by Farzana Hakim Hello, everyone. It’s Farzana here to welcome you back to another wonderful fun-packed season of Thursday Connectors. It seems only yesterday, doesn’t it, that Write On! Extra uploaded its first showcase of amazing writing talent to help us get through the stresses of lockdown and the pandemic. We ...