WriteOn Features – Page 24

Happy Boxing Day: COVID Christmas, Cold War Christmas, Christmas In Exile

26 December 2020 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Lisa Roullier Boxing Day is traditionally about gift ‘boxes’; however, these days, it’s more about sports. For me, this piece by Margaret Drummond shows us how gifts come in all shapes and sizes. Sanctuary, as in an accepting, multi-cultural environment, is one such gift. Margaret’s Christmas past is bittersweet. During ...

The Magic Of Christmas

25 December 2020 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Madeleine F White, Editor of Write On! This beautiful Christmas poem comes from Danny Fenn. A regular contributor from East London, Danny tells us about the joy of his Christmas past, while reminding us to translate the warmth of these memories into positive action on this special day. No ...

Friday Feature: Cooking + Books With Dina Begum

18 December 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Dina Begum My Inspiration I’ve written for most of my life, mainly in the form of short stories, articles, essays and poetry. My love of food, coupled with writing, inspired me to start a food blog several years ago. This led to collating recipes, hoping one day they’d go into a ...

Friday Feature: To Review Or Not To Review

11 December 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Claire Buss Like most writers, I adore reading and I love getting books as presents. I love it when people recommend books to me and I belong to three book clubs, which means I always have a huge TBR (to be read) pile and I'm never short of something to ...

Friday Feature: My Journey To Podcasting

04 December 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Don Scoby How I Got Into Podcasting Writing On Whidbey Island started when talking with my friend and fellow author, Tom Trimbath. Somehow, one of our discussions about becoming audiobook narrators morphed into the idea of co-producing and hosting a writing-themed podcast. The pieces rather fit… Tom pointed out there ...

Friday Feature: With A Little Help From Our Friends

27 November 2020 News, WriteOn Features

Authors Katharine Johnson (Katy), G D Harper (Glyn) and Helen Matthews talk to Write On! about ways authors can find more readers by supporting each other, and how they came together to form the 'Noir Collective'. (Authors pictured in featured image) Imagine it’s publication day. Perhaps for your debut novel. You want ...

Writer Of The Month: Patsy Middleton

23 November 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Juneha Chowdhury Our writer of the month is novelist and poet Patsy Middleton. Patsy was a finalist in the Pen to Print Book Challenge 2015 and 2016 with her debut novel, Colonel Erdington’s Daughter. Apart from writing historical fiction, Patsy also writes sketches, adaptions of plays, and lots of thought-provoking poetry. ...

Friday Feature: The Guilty Writer

20 November 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Claire Buss Hello, my name is Claire and I’m a guilty writer. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing and I still can’t get over the fact that other people enjoy reading my books. But the process of writing itself is not always a smooth path. Let me explain. Getting Up ...

Friday Feature: Five Top Tips To Staying Hopeful

13 November 2020 News, WriteOn Features

By Juneha Chowdhury Hope, like love, is a four-letter word with immense healing power. Like love, it has the ability to fill a void, to lift a spirit but, most importantly, it allows us to alter our perception of the world; giving our lives an uplift, too. When we're overwhelmed by ...

Friday Feature: Write Right

06 November 2020 News, WriteOn Features

Write Right: Brave New Words In Brentwood by Patrick Forsyth (Chair of Brentwood Writers’ Circle) Sadly, with Covid difficulties continuing, so many of our favourite activities are currently impossible. One that can very much continue, of course, is writing. Writing takes many forms: long or short, fiction or non-fiction, and from ...

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