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Write On! Features: From Dodge City To Gotham City: How The Western Shapes The Superhero Story by Joseph Dodd

28 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Joseph Dodd In the history of film, there have been, I think, two genres that, in their own times, dominated and shaped cinema. The first was the Western. The second, currently, is the superhero film. If these two apparently unrelated forms can rise to such prominence, there must be something ...

Write On! Audio January: Out Now!

26 January 2022 News

Write On! Audio: Storytelling From East London To The World – Episode Five 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 guests. ...

Showcase: The Escape + The Regiment + To Her Forty-Something Sibling + Deceiving Appearances + Your Beauty + I Honour You

26 January 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

January's Showcases are introduced by Write On! regular, Mirabel Lavelle. As we move into the end of the first month of the new year, we look ahead at the challenges we face. The diverse pieces of work I chose for this showcase highlight various struggles. They display different sources of perseverance ...

Magic, Hats And Submarines: The Fantastical World Of Frances Hardinge

23 January 2022 News, WriteOn Interviews

By Claire Buss © David Levenson It’s fitting that the theme for Write On! this issue is ‘Wonder’ because it was with awe and wonder I sat waiting for the Zoom call to connect me to Frances Hardinge. I’d seen the beautiful cover artwork for her novel Deeplight and immediately picked it up and read it, thoroughly enjoying the ...

Write On! Features: The Power Of A Muse by Meliha Avdic

21 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Meliha Avdic Muses are real! Hear me, hear me; they are real! If that makes me sound insane, I completely understand. After all, I (like many writers) spent years planning, plotting, writing out character bibles, timelines, chapter breakdowns, for everything I ever wrote, whether it’s a novel, novella, short story, ...

Thursday Connectors: Wonders Of The Mind

20 January 2022 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, it's Farzana, your host, bringing you the first Thursday Connectors of the year. Hooray and Happy New Year everybody, although the greeting may seem to be a few weeks too late, as February is fast approaching! I’m taking a really laid-back approach to life this year. You can’t ...

Showcase: Dear Daughter + The Moon Is Mad + I Am In Love + Saltwater + Crying In The Wind + Home Tomorrow

19 January 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

January's Showcases are introduced by Write On! regular, Mirabel Lavelle. Welcome to the third showcase of the year. I’d like to start by introducing a talented young Maltese writer, Nicole Piscopo. She writes poems which she publishes to her Instagram page and is also working on a young adult fantasy novel. In ...

Write On! Issue 11 OUT TODAY

19 January 2022 News

Write On! 11, Write On! Extra and Write On! Audio – Storytelling From East London To The World Write On! 11 is out today! The theme of Writing With Wonder – The World Through Children’s Eyes, reflects the fact we’ll never look at things the way we once did. Our interview ...

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 ...

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