Short Stories – Pen To Print

Showcase: Tidal Waters + Misunderstanding + The Reading Of Grievances

15 January 2025 News, WriteOn Showcase

Happy Wednesday, readers! My day job is all about ensuring my company communicates clearly with our potential customers, and that we understand exactly what the customer is asking us to communicate. This is far more complex a task than it first appears. We are constantly misunderstanding each other and in ...

Showcase: One Way Ticket + Not It + Spawns Of The Devil + The Bride

08 January 2025 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello readers and welcome to our first 2025 Showcase! I’m Holly, a former Monday Moments editor, tentative writer and cat-fosterer living in Kent. Most importantly, though, I’m the editor for January’s Showcases. Our theme is around Misunderstandings and I imagine there must have been a lot of them over the past ...

Showcase: What Is Raspberry Tart + Agree To Disagree + Christmas Dinner + Undefined Expectations + Christmas Reflections

23 December 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Welcome to my fourth and final Showcase for December. I’ve loved putting these pages together and I hope they have entertained and informed you in some way. My thanks go to Editor Madeleine F White and her Deputy, Claire Buss, for holding my hand throughout the process plus, of course, ...

Showcase: Am I Enough? + An Ideal Date + Twelve Days Of Christmas And The Difference Time Makes

18 December 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Welcome to my third Showcase following the theme of ‘Difference’. Often, outside forces can make us feel ‘different’ even if we’re feeling perfectly OK in ourselves. I'm using this page to expand on this idea. ***** Our first contribution, by Peter Roe, examines the complexity of emotions brought on by the act of ...

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: Difference + Blacke Dog + O Christmas Tree + Mabel Goes To Lunch

04 December 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, everyone. I’m Clare Cooper, your Showcase editor for this festive month of December. I live on the South West London/Surrey borders with my long-term partner and I’m a freelance editor and writer, having previously worked on Woman’s Weekly magazine for many years, where I was Deputy Fiction Editor. Our current ...

Showcase – Quarantine Chronicles And Hayfield In 2020 Vision

14 August 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

It’s August 2024 and as per usual, the Write On! team are enjoying a short summer break. With this in mind, and as the founding Editor, I’m picking some of my favourite Showcases from the past few years. Though they are higgledy-piggledy in terms of season and themes, one thing ...

Showcase: Listen + Definition + Changes + The Child I Was With A Pure Heart Is Still There + When The Game Is Over

31 July 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Clara Khan Over the last four weeks we've shed light on the various changes in life: in school, in nature, through death and as writers. In this last July Showcase, I want to conclude that change is not only a natural and inevitable part of life, but also necessary. ...

Showcase: I Won’t Tell + The School Bus

24 July 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Clara Khan When James Joyce wrote Ulysses, he said: “I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.” I want to focus on the first part ...

Showcase: The Phone Call + Run + Wimbledon Championships

17 July 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Clara Khan If we’re talking about ‘change,’ at some point we need to address the deeper questions of life and death. There's no easy way to talk about this, so I’ll start by stating the fact: death is the only thing we know will reach us all at some ...

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