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Showcase: The Strange Magic Of New Beginnings + A Woman’s Worth + That Island Off Scotland + Enough

10 January 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Helen Aitchison The new year has started and, along with the calendar change, we absorb new hope and consider new dreams and desires. However, as with everything, there will be endings we both champion and commiserate. As we start this year, and continue our January theme of ‘Beginnings And Endings,’ ...

Showcase: After + The Dinner Club + Oceans Have Emotions + Ageing Gracefully

03 January 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Helen Aitchison It's an honour to open up the first showcase of 2024. With the theme of 'Beginnings And Endings' the new year symbolises exactly this, as do the pieces I've chosen. Taken from Viv Fogel's collection, Imperfect Beginnings, her poem After echoes a loss that many feel, through lack of ...

Write On! Features: Write On The Tyne by Helen Aitchison

28 July 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Helen Aitchison I became a writer four years ago and my debut novel, The Dinner Club was released through Cahill Davis Publishing in March 2022. My second novel with Cahill Davis Publishing, The Life And Love (Attempts) Of Kitty Cook was launched in March 2023, and my third novel, 31 ...

Showcase: Veterans’ Voices + Long Distance Call + Doesn’t Sound Right + Our Future + A Model Setting + Housekeeping + One Step For Humanity + The Slip Away Tree + The Eternal Trend + Save The Wye

28 June 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle (c) E.M. Blake, 2023 Welcome to my last June Showcase. It’s been an honour to introduce new voices and showcase returning ones this month. Next week, I'll be sending off the first draft of my children’s book to my editor, so wish me luck! Saturday 24 June marked Armed ...

Showcase: Sight and Sound + Retirement + Take Stock And Breathe + The Loves And Life Of Kitty Cook + Two Lonely People + Alligators In The Arctic

07 June 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Mirabel Lavelle Hello, I’m Mirabel. Welcome to the first June Showcase. The overall theme for this month is 'Voices'. I'd like to share with you a number of voices from the North of England, where I live, as well as a range of other voices from across the UK and beyond. This ...

Write On Interviews: Author Helen Aitchison

19 February 2023 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author Helen Aitchison Helen is from Newcastle upon Tyne. She spent her career working in health and social care, before beginning to write in late 2019. Having never previously written, she couldn’t stop and has had around 20 small pieces published alongside novels. Helen's debut novel, The Dinner ...

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 ...

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