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Write On! Features: My Journey Into Flash Fiction by Thomas Nixon

29 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Thomas Nixon In the late spring of 2021, I was at a crossroads. I'd recently finished work on a series of short stories I was immensely proud of, having worked on them every single day over a significant time period. From this triumph, came a serious desire to create more ...

Write On! Features: Non-Fiction, This Is Your Time by Robert Nurden

22 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Robert Nurden The less elevated role that non-fiction plays compared to the glitzy world of fiction can be detected straightaway in its lumbering prefix ‘non’. The type of writing in which facts are paramount is described in terms of what it is not. Hardly a good start! Biographers and historians like ...

Write On! Features: Letter To A Poet Of Colour by Hongwei Bao

15 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Hongwei Bao The title of this feature takes inspiration from a book, Letters To A Writer Of Colour, edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro (Vintage 2023). The book is useful and inspiring, but I've also noticed that all those featured are prose writers and I've yet to come across ...

Write On! Features: How To Prepare For A Talk by Jilly Henderson-Long

08 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Jilly Henderson-Long I've been lucky enough to do a number of talks at schools and writing groups. As a writer, I find this an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, yet only last year, prior to delivering two talks to two separate Year Four classes at a local school, I still found ...

Write On! Features: How To Begin Writing by Millie Murray

01 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Millie Murray Everyone writes, or has written at some point in their lives. The most obvious place where writing experiences have occurred, is during one’s school years. This is regardless of one’s writing ability. I’m generalising, of course, but when people state, “I would like to be a writer,” they ...

Write On! Features: From Fact to Fiction – The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction by Mark Butterworth

23 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mark Butterworth One of the most appealing and enduring literary genres is historical fiction. Readers enjoy the drama of stories that are set in a recognisable context, time and place, with dramatic characters who play out the events. But it is a truth, (almost) universally accepted, that there is a ...

Write On! Features: Writing Romance In Today’s World by Sue Moorcroft

16 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Sue Moorcroft (c) Silvia Rosado Photography When Madeleine White, the Editor of Write On! asked me whether a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association (www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org) might like to write a feature to connect to Valentine’s Day, I said I’d reach out. After all, we’ve partnered on several things and it ...

Write On! Features: Episodic Writing by Emily Inkpen

09 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Emily Inkpen Episodic writing has changed dramatically since the late noughties. The reason for this is simple: writers can now, more or less, guarantee that viewers and listeners will consume their show from start to finish and in order, at their own pace, without missing anything. With streaming services and the ...

Write On! Features: Opportunity For Aspiring Writers

02 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Charlotte Maddox As a wide-eyed graduate, more than a decade ago now, I stepped into my first job in a literary agency. I imagined plucking bestsellers from the unfortunately named ‘slush pile’ every other day and perhaps even finding the next big thing. Don’t get me wrong, we received some ...

Write On! Features: The Write Mentality – Does One Size Fit All? By Palak Tewary and Juneha Chowdhury

26 January 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Palak Tewary and Juneha Chowdhury Originally published as The Big Debate in issue 7 of Write On! Palak Tewary and Juneha Chowdhury explore writing routines, discussing which approach is most likely to maintain a healthy, hopeful attitude to our writing. Whether it’s an article, a blog or a book, there’s no ...

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