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Showcase: The Return Of Darkie Gardiner (Part Two) + Love Letter To The World

23 September 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

For those of you feeling the suspense from our previous entry, fear not! This week on 'Showcase', we feature part two of Bill Swiggs' short story, The Return Of Darkie Gardiner, the time-spanning adventure of treasure and justice, set in the mountains of Central New South Wales, Australia. In case ...

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Showcase: The Return of Darkie Gardiner (Part One) + Different Yet The Same

16 September 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

In honour of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, the awards ceremony of which took place last week, I am pleased to welcome Bill Swiggs back to 'Showcase'. Bill won the Best Unpublished Manuscript category in 2018 and his novel, Blood In The Dust, was published in 2019. You can ...

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Showcase: Day Trip + Different Eyes Need Different Views

09 September 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Resilience is the capacity to cope with and recover from difficult circumstances. But it doesn't necessarily mean remaining unchanged. It can mean having the fortitude to resist anticipated or actual negativity, or it can mean adapting to circumstances to find a more positive way forward. We creatives, for example, are all ...

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Showcase: Wartime + It’s A Dog’s Life

02 September 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Our theme this week is 'Finding Your Balance', which will mean something unique to each of us. The world is a big, beautiful and chaotic place and balancing our many and varied responsibilities and desires to discover a centre that allows us to feel as though we’re in control of ...

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Showcase: The Basilwade Chronicles + Underlying Causations

26 August 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

One of the best things any writer can do to inspire their creativity and hone their craft is to join a writers’ group. Little else gets the creative juices flowing and the pen scribbling like surrounding yourself with other writers and assigning yourself a task with a deadline. Not only ...

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Showcase: The Saturday Morning Park Run + City Of Dreams

12 August 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Our theme this week is 'Building Bridges', so I am excited to feature an extract from an uncorrected proof of a novel that celebrates community spirit and the phenomenon of new relationships and friendships forming at the times when we often need them the most. The Saturday Morning Park Run, ...

Showcase: The Tunnel + Sustainable Olympics 2020

05 August 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Our theme this week is 'Many Faces, Many Masks', and the first piece to feature on 'Showcase' encapsulates this perfectly; not just what it means to carry ourselves differently in various scenarios and companies, but also why we create these masks for ourselves in the first place. This anonymous submission ...

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Showcase: Entwined + An Unexpected Tribute

15 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

This year has been one of several dichotomies, showing evidence that apparently contradicting concepts can exist in harmony: staying apart from others while working together as a community, isolating from friends, family and neighbours but communicating more than ever before and facing our independent struggles while helping each other through ...

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Showcase: The Diversity Paradox + Do Something For Me

08 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

Pride may have its roots in the late ‘60s USA, but the movement has well and truly spread to every corner of the globe. One advantage of our globalised, technologically connected society is that nations and populations no longer have to feel quite so isolated when undergoing cultural and social ...

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Showcase – Confessions Of A Rewired Lover + Ward Observations

01 July 2020 News, WriteOn Showcase

The theme this week on Write On! is 'Unplugged' or, more specifically, our relationship with technology. As such, I'm pleased to bring you two pieces to this week's 'Showcase' which demonstrates this in multiple ways. From the humorous to the emotional and the elective to the necessary. First up, we have ...

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