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Showcase: Entwined + An Unexpected Tribute

15 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This year has been one of several dichotomies, showing evidence that apparently contradicting concepts can exist in harmony: staying apart from others while working together as a community, isolating from friends, family and neighbours but communicating more than ever before and facing our independent struggles while helping each other through ...

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Showcase: The Diversity Paradox + Do Something For Me

08 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Pride may have its roots in the late ‘60s USA, but the movement has well and truly spread to every corner of the globe. One advantage of our globalised, technologically connected society is that nations and populations no longer have to feel quite so isolated when undergoing cultural and social ...

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Showcase – Confessions Of A Rewired Lover + Ward Observations

01 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

The theme this week on Write On! is 'Unplugged' or, more specifically, our relationship with technology. As such, I'm pleased to bring you two pieces to this week's 'Showcase' which demonstrates this in multiple ways. From the humorous to the emotional and the elective to the necessary. First up, we have ...

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Showcase – Take It Back & I’m The Calm One

24 June 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

We are celebrating BAME writers and creatives this week on Write On! Extra, so it gives me great pleasure to bring you an extract from the recently released, highly successful Take It Back, a novel by Kia Abdullah. Take It Back has been described as one of the best thrillers of the ...

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Showcase – Displaced & The Philosopher’s Daughters

17 June 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

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 ...

Showcase – COVID-19: Storm’s Perspective & You Made Me Cry

10 June 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This week, we have a short story offering a unique point of view on the current pandemic and another first for Showcase! The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink our perspectives on many things we once took for granted. Tricia Wadsworth's story considers the global crisis from the point of ...

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Showcase – Community Security Trust And Keep Singing

03 June 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

A return to the familiar and also something very new to Showcase this week! First up, we have the next in our series of truly excellent submissions to our Flash Fiction competition. In Community Security Trust, author Paul Burridge puts an amusing and relatable spin on a local volunteer's reaction to ...

Showcase – Quarantine Chronicles And Hayfield In 2020 Vision

27 May 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This week, I am delighted to present a few extracts of the semi-fictional diary of Peter Dale, a British writer living in Bogota, Colombia. In the ‘Quarantine Chronicles’, Peter writes a personal account of life in Bogota from the very first day of the COVID-19 lockdown. Day-by-day, he presents his ...

Wednesday Showcase: Blood In The Dust

20 May 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This week, we have an extract from the award-winning Blood In The Dust by Australian author Bill Swiggs. Bill and I became acquainted at the 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, where we were both shortlisted for the Best Unpublished Manuscript category: a competition he won and which led to his novel ...

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Showcase – XIII & The Chocolate Box

13 May 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Next up in our series of flash fiction submissions is my own short story, XIII, which was fortunate enough to place as second runner-up. As before, I will let the competition judge, Clare Cooper, introduce the piece. While this is the last of the finalists, we will be publishing the ...

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