Creative Writing – Pen To Print

Showcase: A Philosophy Of Home + Home + Calm And Chaos + Home Again + How Lucky We Are + At Home

07 December 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Julie Dexter Welcome to the first of four December Showcases. I'm delighted to be the editor for this month, which will see us navigate the shorter days and begin the festive and winter solstice period. Continuing with the theme of Home, I’d like to open with a piece by a ...

Showcase: Snorp’s Adventure + Worlds Apart + Don’t Be Scared + A Place To Call Home + High Tide + Country Church + Autumn + Kawlata Soup

30 November 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Welcome to my final November Showcase. I hope you've enjoyed all the wonderful writing! My search for writers took me to the Edinburgh Book Festival for the first time and then to The Word Library hub in South Shields, where they have a new project: Meet The Author. ...

Showcase: The Dinner Club + Rock God Complex + Inkcap & The Nethers + Inkcap & The Blight Of The Bonnets

23 November 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Welcome to the fourth November Showcase. This week we have three very different Northern writers: Dr Tracey Iceton, debut author Helen Aitchison and Kylie Dixon, illustrator and children’s writer. Helen Aitchison wrote The Dinner Club during lockdown and her talent for observing and writing about people’s behaviour is exquisite. The ...

Showcase: Daniela + Martina + Elaine + Live For The Now + Life Of Augustus + The Homeless + Mermaid Of The Tyne + The Coral Mother

16 November 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Welcome to my third Showcase. I have a variety of poems by Maltese, Welsh and English poets and a fantasy story by a talented Peruvian writer. In the first three, Nicole Piscopo's magical writing links our senses to nature’s powerful elements. Daniela I like watching lightning in a storm Because a part ...

Showcase: I Was But A Boy + Extract From The Midwife And Birth In The Maltese Community In The 20th Century + Diabetes! + The Link Between Anxiety And Binge Eating

09 November 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle This weekend, we commemorate Armistice Day, when at 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month we remember those who lost their lives for the freedom of their homeland. Poppy wreaths are laid down in memory of each life extinguished. My first choice for today is a ...

Showcase: Blue + Rotten Luck + Humanitarian Effort + Pride + The Gate Keeper’s Apprentice + Dead Man’s Bones

02 November 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Hello. I’m Mirabel and I would like to welcome you to the first Showcase page of November. This month, we're continuing with the theme of ‘home’, and I'll bring you a variety of writing exploring what home means to different people. November is a time of remembrance, so next ...

Showcase: House + I Am Back Home + The Haunted House + Owl Flight

26 October 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Diya Padiyar Welcome to my final Showcase page. And I still have so much more to say about the theme of home! I'd like to begin by exploring homes in a context I've always been curious about: abandoned houses. Our ancestral home, where my father grew up, is right across the ...

Showcase: Questher-The Lord On My Side + Love Me! + The Wind’s Embrace

19 October 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Diya Padiyar Last week, we explored the idea of home and how transient it is. I walked you through it from my perspective, in Goa. However, elsewhere in the world, similar themes can be interpreted differently. History and Cultural experiences play an important role in who we are and how ...

Showcase: Looking For Home + Where Is Home + Back Home + Milkshake Of The Mind + Isolation

12 October 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Diya Padiyar Last week, we explored the theme of 'Home' and how it means different things to people, especially teenagers like me, who not only conceive things differently but whose ideas and notions keep evolving. I believe this is very apt for our theme. The definition of 'Home' not only changes ...

Showcase: An Ode To Home + A Roof With Four Walls + Kind Heart + Home Is Where The Heart Is + Right Now, You Are My Home

05 October 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Diya Padiyar Home has always been my favourite subject to write about. Simply because it means different things to everyone and yet, it evokes the same feelings of love and nostalgia. Through the month of October, I wish to explore this theme of home and homeliness. The land I call my ...

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