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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 ...

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 ...

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