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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Literary Passions And Guilty Pleasures

11 July 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to July’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. Summer’s here at last! People will be feeling very end-of-term-ish, ready to relax and rest for the remainder of this bright season. This fab image from Afsana Elanko captures the feeling of these lazy, dandelion-filled, summer days. (c) Dr Afsana Elanko, 2023 Our new ...

Showcase: Guilty Pleasures + A Day Out + You’re Not Good Enough + Joe’s Garden + A Robot + In Search Of The Perfect Cake

05 July 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Dr Afsana Elanko I'm really excited about this first of four Showcases in July, based on the theme of Literary Passions And Guilty Pleasures. The theme of guilty pleasures intrigues me: who decides what is a guilty pleasure? It’s just a perspective, an opinion, society’s opinion and, as such, there are ...

Showcase: Windrush + Loving The Children + Breaking Bread + If I Told You, You’d Go Mad + Island Nation + Bismillah

21 June 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Welcome to the third June Showcase. On the 22nd of this month we commemorate National Windrush Day. It was 1948 when The Empire Windrush ship arrived at Tilbury Docks and hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean and other nations stepped onto British soil. I would like to mark this ...

Showcase: Life’s Vessel + Wizard Beano And Pals + Daydreams + In Command + Changing The World With A Voice + Insecure Voices + Just Sit With Me + The Draw Of The Souk

14 June 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Welcome. I've just returned from the Hay Festival, where I spoke on the Write On! panel about co-creation and my experience of it through this magazine and Pen to Print. I'm ending this Showcase with a poem I wrote while in Wales, inspired by the very hot weather ...

Monday Moments: Home Is Alive

07 November 2022 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Holly King As we’ve seen in previous Monday Moments when exploring our theme of home, this changes across countries, time, people, and space. But what is home, and when do we need it most? Is home something we define, or is it something innate in us that identifies itself ...

Thursday Connectors: Tribute To Her Majesty The Queen

20 October 2022 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, all! Welcome to Thursday Connectors. Today I bring you tributes connected to the passing of our late monarch, the Queen. I have a selection of heartfelt writing, including a poem by Joan Goodall, and drawings by Dr Afsana Elanko. Claire Buss shares lasting memories; Michelle Sutton, her experience ...

Thursday Connectors: Worlds Apart On Holiday

22 September 2022 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. I’ve returned to host another edition of Thursday Connectors after a much-needed and well-deserved break. To be honest, who doesn’t need a break from the hustle and bustle of London life? I certainly did and in today’s Connectors, I’ll be telling you what I did and where ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Worlds Apart

13 September 2022 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to September's Thoughtful Tuesday page. This September has been overshadowed by the death of the Queen. Many people’s thoughts are with her and with her family; many need to take some time to reflect on her life and her passing. It’s a coincidence that I have this lovely ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: From Mind Your Language to Worlds Apart

12 July 2022 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to July’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. Over the last few months we’ve been looking at words and how we use them so, I started asking people about things they’d been told as children, by adults. This links beautifully into our new summer theme: ‘Worlds Apart’: bridging gaps of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Mind Your Language

10 May 2022 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my Thoughtful Tuesday page for May. The theme for our current editions of Write On! Extra is 'Mind Your Language: Words And How We Use Them,' which is a perfect theme for a magazine for and about writers. It’s especially relevant to my Thoughtful Tuesday’s page, as ...

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