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21 July 2024 Monday Moments, News, Saturday Spotlight, Thoughtful Tuesday, Thursday Connectors, WriteOn Features, WriteOn Interviews, WriteOn Showcase

(Bluesky/Instagram: @madeleinefwhite) As we move into 2025 my most important piece of writing is coming up: a sentence or two about my intentions for the year. I’ve been doing this since 2003 and it's so interesting to see how things have changed. I think the key thing is my acceptance of ...

Thursday Connectors: Letters To Santa

21 December 2022 Hidden

By Farzana Hakim Here are the letters to Santa from the brilliant children in year two at March Green Primary School. ***** Read the latest issue of Write On! magazine online. You can hear extracts from Showcase in our podcast. Write On! Audio. Find us on all major podcast platforms, including Apple and Google Podcasts and ...

Thursday Connectors: What Is Home?

24 November 2022 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. It's Farzana, your host. This month, on Thursday Connectors, I come with lots of emotion and sentimental examples of creative writing using a subject I imagine is close to all our hearts. Home is our theme and what is more sentimental to us than our homes? Yet, ...

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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