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Write On! Features: A Better World Is Possible by Eithne Cullen

31 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Eithne Cullen As a writer, one of the things I’ve found is that things just keep getting better! Since my early success with Pen to Print competitions, I’ve won a few prizes, published two novels and a poetry pamphlet, had opportunities to judge competitions, been a 'poet in residence,' performed ...

Writer Of The Month: Laura Maclennan

27 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Lucy Kaufman It is a privilege to introduce our Writer Of The Month. As a writer, tutor and lecturer, I come across a great many writers, but not so many, so far, who write with such direct clarity of purpose as Laura Maclennan. Laura not only writes, but uses ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases March 2023

25 March 2023 News, Saturday Spotlight

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On! At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, playwrights and audiences, so we've created a Spotlight page on the last Saturday of the month, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list ...

Write On! Features: A Brief Introduction To Haiku by Jilly Henderson-Long

24 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long There's something timeless and precious about Haiku. It isn't just its brevity and simplicity; it's its sensuousness, its profundity, and – most of all – its relevance to now, even in those written hundreds of years ago. Its origins lie in 17th-century Japan and it's closely linked to Zen, ...

Write On! Features: Artifical Intelligence by Vic Howard

17 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Vic Howard with a foreword by Claire Buss If you belong to any kind of writing community online, you've probably heard someone talk about ChatGPT and maybe even read some creative prose written by this artificial intelligence tool. GPT is a chatbot powered by huge quantities of data and computing ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: The Voice Of Empowerment

14 March 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to March’s Thoughtful Tuesday. We’re still thinking about the world of contradictions and how they influence our thoughts, our writing and our reading. It’s Women’s Empowerment month, too, with International Women’s Day on the eighth, a fixture in our March calendar, not just here but all over ...

Write On! Features: Discovering Our Power Within by Irina Goncherenko and Liliana Hristova

10 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Irina Goncherenko and Liliana Hristova Becoming a mum is full of contradictions; we are vulnerable and empowered at the same time. When our children are small, we question and evaluate everything we do: weighing up practicalities, remembering our forgotten passions and reconnecting with our inner child and creativity. As mothers, we ...

Monday Moments: Who Am I?

06 March 2023 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall Back in January, I was lucky enough to guest-edit an episode on working-class writers for the Alternative Stories And Fake Realities podcast (have a listen here). One of the things that I spoke about in the podcast was my relationship with my working-class roots, and how this ...

Write On! Features: Uncovering The Watchman – Script Writing, Poetry And The Importance Of Colour by Alicia Hayden

03 March 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Alicia Hayden If you’d asked me a year ago to write poems about Zimbabwe; a country I’d never been to, on a continent I’d never been in, I’d have been stumped. Perhaps I’d have turned to Google and tried to get an idea of the place through images and videos. ...

Writer Of The Month: Lucy Kaufman

27 February 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Madeleine F White As Editor of Write On! I get to see lots of writing and meet many writers from all kinds of different backgrounds and it’s been such a pleasure to foster and showcase the talent that is out there. Sometimes, though, I get to meet a writer ...

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