Jilly Henderson-Long – Pen To Print

Showcase: Water Babies + Thames + Calibrating A Diamond

27 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long For my last March showcase, I start by returning to the theme of Mothers and Women. I hope you’ve enjoyed the beautiful writing I’ve found for you in March. It’s been a powerful month of words and works and we’ve celebrated Women’s History Month, Mother’s Day and ...

Showcase: Alone + What Did They Take From You? + Speed Demon + Speaker For The Dead + Corpse In The Chard

20 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long Hi, I’m Jilly and I’d like to welcome you to my third March Showcase. Tomorrow is World Poetry day and, as a published poet, I’m keen to showcase some beautiful writing from our submissions folder, exploring how poetry works when compared to other styles of writing. After ...

Showcase: Dear Future Me + Rouhi’s Haiku + My Mother Was The Machine + Demeter’s Oasis

13 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long Hi, I’m Jilly and I’d like to welcome you to my second March Showcase. As a published poet and children’s book author, I've found courage to be a key attribute in my writing journey. With that in mind, I’d like to start with this amazing piece of ...

Write On! Features: How To Prepare For A Talk by Jilly Henderson-Long

08 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Jilly Henderson-Long I've been lucky enough to do a number of talks at schools and writing groups. As a writer, I find this an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, yet only last year, prior to delivering two talks to two separate Year Four classes at a local school, I still found ...

Showcase: You Are A Special Lady + Alice Ayres + Baby + A Place Between + Who Knows

06 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long It's interesting that March hails both International Women’s Day on the eighth and Mother’s Day on tenth of the month. And this, my first Showcase, is just a few days before each. Being a 21st century woman is not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but ...

Writer Of The Month: Jilly Henderson-Long

26 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Gareth Southwell February’s Writer Of The Month feature focuses on Jilly Henderson-Long. Now based in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Jilly’s passion for writing began in early childhood and has continued unabated ever since. She's not only a published poet and children’s book author, but has always been keen to share ...

Showcase: Death In The Afternoon + No You Can’t + Her Fear Of Water + Solar Return

21 February 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Niema Bohrayba Welcome to the third of my February Showcases. The theme of 'Beginnings And Endings' is mirrored in the natural world around us through the moon, one of our cosmic timers. As we head into the weekend, the upcoming full moon that awaits us symbolises fruition and culmination. ...

Write On! Features: How To ‘Write About What You Know’ by Jilly Henderson-Long

06 October 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long Ask any writer and they will tell you that, at some point in their career, they've been advised the best way to make their writing sound realistic, is ‘write about what you know’. There's no doubt this adds credence to any writing. We’re all aware of how it ...

Write On! Features: Ten Stories (just waiting to be written) by Jilly Henderson-Long

19 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long PROCRASTINATION – one of the writer’s worst enemies! We all know how it is, and there is no point pretending we don’t, because we’re fooling nobody but ourselves. We go out of our way to set aside some writing time, the chores are done, the kids are in ...

Write On! Features: A Brief Introduction To Haiku by Jilly Henderson-Long

24 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long There's something timeless and precious about Haiku. It isn't just its brevity and simplicity; it's its sensuousness, its profundity, and – most of all – its relevance to now, even in those written hundreds of years ago. Its origins lie in 17th-century Japan and it's closely linked to Zen, ...

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