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  (Bluesky/Instagram: @madeleinefwhite) March is Women’s Empowerment Month and includes International Women’s Day on the 8th. Lately, I’ve been feeling disempowered, both by a lack of personal agency and by the overwhelming state of global geopolitics. I know I’m not alone in this. But with daffodils beginning to bloom along the verges, I’m ...

Thursday Connectors: Letters To Santa

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?

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

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

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 ...