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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 ...

Write On! Features: Writing Through Grief by Preetha Leela Chockalingam

02 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Preetha Leela Chockalingam Coming from a family of avid readers and writers, I was unusually slow to both reading and writing. In my very South Indian family, it was expected that you would love books. I was eight and struggled with reading. By contrast, my sister, Deepa, who was only ...

Write On! Features: Now Your Work Is Organised

19 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mary Walsh My last feature gave you the story of me trying to organise my work. Have you done yours yet? Are there still nooks and crannies filled with odd bits of writing? Have you retrieved all this precious treasure and bullied it into some sort of order? I hope ...

Write On! Features: The London Typewriters

05 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Natalia The London Typewriters story began in 2012, when we went searching for something special and quirky to start as an independent enterprise. After many trips to a variety of car-boot sales we failed to find anything unique, but then one day an old broken typewriter caught the eye of Alex ...

Write On! Features: Overcoming Hurdles by Eva Lauder

21 June 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Eva Lauder I’ve had Multiple Sclerosis for 27 years, 25 officially. My diagnosis was on my birthday in 1999. Smart phones didn’t exist, and the internet was purely restricted to internet cafes and so trying to read up about this condition I’d only known through posters on the London Underground ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 3 – The Future of Writing & AI by E.M. Blake

07 June 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part three of a three-part series. Read part one here and part two here.) “If I was a professional writer rather than professional thinker, I'd feel slightly threatened by ChatGPT; not because it would replace me, but because of what it would do to intellectual property and ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 2 – Art, Literacy & The Singular Literary Genius by E.M. Blake

31 May 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part two of a three-part series. Read part one here.) Dr Omar Kholeif says, “Most of the time when I use ChatGPT, I am with people, who use it as a kind of party trick. I’ve noticed it happens with individuals who don’t have an interest in ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 1 – Is Generation Z Trying To Save Us From AI? by E.M. Blake

17 May 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part one of a three-part series.) “Woah, slow your roll, we’re not going to take it seriously. We see AI as a new meme opportunity,” Tennessee born MFA student Catherine Sheffield says. She was one of five people I interviewed for this three-part series on ChatGPT, a natural ...

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