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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 ...

Write On! Features: Using Archives To Tell Stories by Rachel Webb

06 December 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Rachel Webb My mother and grandmother were both only children, and so was I for the first five or six years of my life until my baby sister came along. My mother’s grandmother, though, was one of five sisters, providing me with a whole community (several generations of 'aunties' and ...

Write On! Features: So You Want To Be A Writer? by Nicola Garrard

15 November 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Nicola Garrard FIVE early steps to make your writing dreams come true! Publishing is tough. Being lucky enough to have your book published feels like a strike of lightning. If you tell your family you want to be an author, they’ll most likely pat your head and say, "Remember when you ...

Write On! Features: A Glimpse Of Anglo India by Clare Jenkins

01 November 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Clare Jenkins As a journalist, I’ve always written. I’ve also interviewed many writers, including Margaret Atwood, Melvyn Bragg, Jackie Collins, Margaret Drabble, PD James… When I interviewed Rumer Godden, who wrote wonderful novels about India, including Black Narcissus, she told me: “I was born with a gift for telling stories. ...

Write On! Features: Seven Go Mad In Hay by Eithne Cullen

18 October 2024 News, WriteOn Features

With Hay Festival Winter Weekend happening 28 November - 2 December, we asked Write On! page editor Eithne Cullen to share her experience at Hay Festival earlier this year in May. Book tickets for the Winter Weekend here. Photo (c) Adam Tatton-Reid, 2024. The Tale Of An Adventure by Eithne Cullen It started, ...

Write On! Features: A Young Person’s Guide To Being A Poet by Amaka Felly Obioji

04 October 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Hello, dear young poet. I know you might be wondering what to do with all those beautiful words you've saved on your phone or written in a book. Perhaps you’re wondering how to convey the thoughts in your mind into lines of poetry. Poems are beautiful, audacious in their lines and ...

Write On! Features: Writing For Children by Mirabel Lavelle

20 September 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Turning A Picture Book Wish Into A Published Book by Mirabel Lavelle When I started drafting this article, I asked myself: ‘When exactly did I start this book journey?’ I could not work out one specific point in time. The reason is because different things have happened over several years which ...

Write On! Features: Layering Conflict, Creating Stories

06 September 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Though the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is the Foundation’s flagship programme, The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation also supports adventure writing by offering two further awards: the Author Of Tomorrow for young writers and the New Voices award for a work-in-progress or fledgling idea. Alan Stone was shortlisted in 2021 ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Historical Accuracy + Character

30 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Welcome back to our Mini Masterclass series, designed to provide you with expert insights into the essential elements of storytelling from five of the authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel award. Last week, C.E. McGill, Francesca de ...

Write On! Features: Mini Masterclass – Plot, Setting & Narrative Voice

16 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

Curated by Charlotte Maddox, Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation At the heart of every great story there is a careful balance of essential elements that work together to captivate readers. In this two-part Mini Masterclass series, five authors shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize explore the core components that ...

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