Lisa Scully-O’Grady – Pen To Print

Monday Moments: Meaning, Language And Learning

06 January 2025 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall Happy New Year, readers! For my first ‘Monday Moments’ of 2025, I’d like to introduce our new theme: ‘Misunderstandings’. Language is a slippery thing. The same sentence could be interpreted in various ways by different people or groups, and what we say isn’t always what we mean. The ...

Write On! Features: The Write On! Team Share Their 2024 Wins & Losses

20 December 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss Every year, I invite the Write On! regulars to share their creative wins and losses over 2024. It always amazes me how we are suddenly in December and I often panic – did I do enough this year? Have I achieved what I wanted? Do I need ...

Showcase: The Bike Project + What Makes ME + Dagenham To Barking Banter + Grandma’s Christmas Cake

11 December 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello and welcome to my second Showcase for December. Things are hotting up out there, and I’m beginning to realise my Christmas card list won’t write itself! Time to crack on then with my first piece, written by Claire Buckle, detailing the work of a brilliant charity, The Bike Project, ...

Showcase: Stronger Storms, Rising Seas + Lessons In Trust + Statistic Becomes An Ending And Beginning + Solstice Poem

25 September 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again. I’m Lisa Scully-O’Grady, a writer with an interest in creativity and how we can use it to heal both ourselves and others. Welcome to my fourth and final instalment of our Showcase on the theme of ‘Change’. This week, I’m weaving caring for the planet into caring for ...

Showcase: Why Don’t You + The Older Lady And Mirrors + Headspin + Metamorphosis + Being Ines

18 September 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again, I’m Lisa Scully-O’Grady and welcome to my third Showcase on the theme of change. This week, I wanted to talk about changes in relation to the body, women’s in particular, as I can see this is a big topic of interest for you. I’m sharing some wonderful poems, ...

Showcase: Die Oma + Free From My Senses + Change

11 September 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again, I’m Lisa Scully-O’Grady, a writer with an interest in the connection between creativity and healing. This week, we continue with our theme of change. Family expansion is another facet of change that most people go through at some point, whether it be due to our own or a family ...

Showcase: A Poem By Gabby + In And Out Of Childhood: Navigating The Path To Adulthood +Empty Nest

04 September 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Welcome to the first of my four September Showcases, in this, the final month on our theme of 'Change.' I’m Lisa Scully-O’Grady, a writer with an interest in writing for creativity and healing. Everything changes in life, from one year to the next and one day to the next. Nothing stays ...

Monday Moments: Changing Form To Reconnect With Your Writing

02 September 2024 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall Our theme this month is ‘Change’ and I’ve been thinking about how this idea relates to the act of writing itself. There are myriad ways to approach writing – so much so that it can feel daunting to get anything down on paper in the first place. ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Change

09 July 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my Thoughtful Tuesday page for July. I’m going to be sharing a lot of writing about change, our current theme here at Write On! I’d like to start with some writing about a massive change: the change of moving from one country to another, one culture to ...

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