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Showcase: Short Rains + Locked In + Her Farthest North

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Hello again. I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for October. This month, we’re thinking about the themes of 'Reality And Perspectives.' At The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation, where I work as Prize Manager, we’re in the business of adventure writing, so you’ll have to excuse the art metaphor, but I’ve ...

Showcase: Nobody Panic + Optimism + Utopia, Texas

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Welcome to October’s first Write On! Showcase. This is also my own first Showcase, so I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Charlotte, and I’m the Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. We are a literature and literacy charity, championing adventure as a genre. We run the Wilbur ...

Showcase: Deadly Twist + I Write

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It’s August 2023 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 ...

Write On! Interviews Author Ayesha Harruna Attah

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Write On! interviews author Ayesha Harruna Attah. (c) Itunu Kuku Ayesha grew up in Accra, Ghana, and was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the author of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated Harmattan Rain, Saturday Shadows, The Hundred Wells Of Salaga, currently translated into four ...

Showcase: Ghosthood + Recollections

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September's Showcases are introduced by Georgina Brown, Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. 'To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.’ J.K Rowling, via Albus Dumbledore This week, I would like to share two pieces of prose with you. It is their reflective nature that encouraged me ...

Showcase: White Gold + Redemption

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September's Showcases are introduced by Georgina Brown, Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. In adventure fiction, there is no smooth sailing. The protagonists will always find obstacles in their paths, like in all good stories. Whether it’s a physical obstacle, a geographical one or relationship-based, there will be speed ...

Showcase: The Black Water Code + Reborn, Villanelle Poem

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September's Showcases will be introduced by Georgina Brown, Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. We are confidently riding the adventure wave for another week. In the last weeks, we’ve looked at some of the characteristics of an adventure hero: bravery, resourcefulness and courage. We’ve discussed the idea that an ...

Showcase: Deadly Twist + I Write

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September's Showcases will be introduced by Georgina Brown, Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. In my second week of editing the Write On! Showcase, I'm continuing the theme of adventure. This week, however, is less about what the idea of adventure means, but what it can do for you. An ...