Charlotte Maddox – Pen To Print

Showcase: Version Ultra + The Map + Shuttlecocks And Shoelaces + My Amazing Flower

27 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

This is hello and goodbye from me! I’m Charlotte, Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation and, I'm sad to say, this is my last Showcase for November. Over the past four weeks, we’ve explored how difference can divide, how it can connect, and how it can challenge us ...

Showcase: Yesteryear + Greet My People For Me + I Notice… Strongly, Slightly, Not At All

20 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again! I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for November. I've thoroughly enjoyed sharing the fantastic writing from our contributors under this month’s theme of ‘Difference’. The pieces have offered the opportunity to consider how difference can arise and manifest, how difference can lead to new connections and understandings, and how ...

Showcase: Breathless Air + O Mapa + What’s The Difference?

13 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again! I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for November. This month, we’re thinking about the theme of ‘Difference’. As Prize Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation, I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about fictional differences: different cultures, different people and different times. In fact, in ...

Showcase: The Selene Project + Odder Still + You’re Not My F*cking Mother

06 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, and welcome to November’s first showcase! I’m Charlotte, and I’m the Prize Manager at the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, which is awarded by The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. Established in 2015 by the late adventure author Wilbur Smith and his wife, Niso, the Foundation champions literacy and ...

Write On! Features: Opportunity For Aspiring Writers

02 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Charlotte Maddox As a wide-eyed graduate, more than a decade ago now, I stepped into my first job in a literary agency. I imagined plucking bestsellers from the unfortunately named ‘slush pile’ every other day and perhaps even finding the next big thing. Don’t get me wrong, we received some ...

Showcase: Mother + Small Talk + He + Movement And Stillness

25 October 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my final Write On! Showcase for October. Over the past month, we’ve been thinking about reality and perspectives, and exploring the fascinating interplay between these two ideas. What has become clear is that they often coexist on a spectrum, where the boundary blurs and overlaps. What has ...

Showcase: Vivid Fear + Clutching Coffee + Ashes + I’m Hear To Listen Anytime

18 October 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

Welcome to October’s third Showcase, focussing on the theme of ‘Reality And Perspectives’. This is a multi-layered theme and, so far this month, we've seen poetry and prose exploring all sorts of different angles: the ways in which perspective colours reality, the infallible nature of reality and how easily it ...

Showcase: Short Rains + Locked In + Her Farthest North

11 October 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again. I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for October. This month, we’re thinking about the themes of 'Reality And Perspectives.' At The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation, where I work as Prize Manager, we’re in the business of adventure writing, so you’ll have to excuse the art metaphor, but I’ve ...

Showcase: Nobody Panic + Optimism + Utopia, Texas

04 October 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

Welcome to October’s first Write On! Showcase. This is also my own first Showcase, so I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Charlotte, and I’m the Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. We are a literature and literacy charity, championing adventure as a genre. We run the Wilbur ...

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