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Write On! Features: A Young Person’s Guide To Being A Poet by Amaka Felly Obioji

04 October 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Hello, dear young poet. I know you might be wondering what to do with all those beautiful words you've saved on your phone or written in a book. Perhaps you’re wondering how to convey the thoughts in your mind into lines of poetry. Poems are beautiful, audacious in their lines and ...

Write On! Features: Writing For Children by Mirabel Lavelle

20 September 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Turning A Picture Book Wish Into A Published Book by Mirabel Lavelle When I started drafting this article, I asked myself: ‘When exactly did I start this book journey?’ I could not work out one specific point in time. The reason is because different things have happened over several years which ...

Write On! Features: Layering Conflict, Creating Stories

06 September 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Though the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is the Foundation’s flagship programme, The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation also supports adventure writing by offering two further awards: the Author Of Tomorrow for young writers and the New Voices award for a work-in-progress or fledgling idea. Alan Stone was shortlisted in 2021 ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Historical Accuracy + Character

30 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Welcome back to our Mini Masterclass series, designed to provide you with expert insights into the essential elements of storytelling from five of the authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel award. Last week, C.E. McGill, Francesca de ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Plot, Setting & Narrative Voice

16 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation At the heart of every great story there is a careful balance of essential elements that work together to captivate readers. In this two-part Mini Masterclass series, five authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize explore the core components that ...

Write On! Features: Writing Through Grief by Preetha Leela Chockalingam

02 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Preetha Leela Chockalingam Coming from a family of avid readers and writers, I was unusually slow to both reading and writing. In my very South Indian family, it was expected that you would love books. I was eight and struggled with reading. By contrast, my sister, Deepa, who was only ...

Posts For Unprecedented Times

21 July 2024 Monday Moments, News, Saturday Spotlight, Thoughtful Tuesday, Thursday Connectors, WriteOn Features, WriteOn Interviews, WriteOn Showcase

by Madeleine White (X/Instagram: @madeleinefwhite) There is a saying I’d like to share which I’ve generally found to be true: ‘Compare and despair.’ It seems appropriate to start October, and our new theme: ‘Difference,’ with this. Human beings are tribal. We like feeling the same as other people, and define that similarity through ...

Write On! Features: Now Your Work Is Organised

19 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mary Walsh My last feature gave you the story of me trying to organise my work. Have you done yours yet? Are there still nooks and crannies filled with odd bits of writing? Have you retrieved all this precious treasure and bullied it into some sort of order? I hope ...

Write On! Features: The London Typewriters

05 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Natalia The London Typewriters story began in 2012, when we went searching for something special and quirky to start as an independent enterprise. After many trips to a variety of car-boot sales we failed to find anything unique, but then one day an old broken typewriter caught the eye of Alex ...

Write On! Features: Overcoming Hurdles by Eva Lauder

21 June 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Eva Lauder I’ve had Multiple Sclerosis for 27 years, 25 officially. My diagnosis was on my birthday in 1999. Smart phones didn’t exist, and the internet was purely restricted to internet cafes and so trying to read up about this condition I’d only known through posters on the London Underground ...

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