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Write On! Features: From Bow To The Bookie – A Personal Journey In Books And Writing by Suzy Lines

22 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Suzy Lines As a young girl, I was the one that was quiet, well spoken, who didn’t quite fit in. Having moved from the South to Bow, East London in 1981 at the age of five, I didn’t speak like the other kids (my Dad policing any H’s and innits ...

Write On! Features: Social Media For Creatives: Friend Or Foe? by Amber Hall

15 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Amber Hall Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 15 Do you remember a time before the Internet? Before our thinking was shaped by social media? In the early days, we had Bebo and then Facebook. We tended to our pages nightly, racking up follower counts through increasingly tenuous connections. I think ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Literary Passions, Guilty Pleasures

12 September 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Our theme of Literary Passions, Guilty Pleasures opens up myriad ideas about passion and guilt. When Dr Afsana Elanko sent me this amazing image, I straightaway thought of how food fits this theme so well. Like me, you might enjoy sitting and reading a cookery book or magazine, ...

Write On! Features: Should Children’s Writing Be Sugar-Coating Their World? By Mary Walsh

08 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Mary Walsh Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 11 When writing a book for children with a plot involving sensitive issues such as racism, sexual abuse, cruelty, neglect and death, do you sugar-coat it to make it appear ‘nicer’ or do you portray the world as it is, warts and all? In ...

Monday Moments: Literary Passions As Self-Discovery

04 September 2023 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall This month, our theme continues to be ‘Literary Passions And Guilty Pleasures.’ I’ve been thinking about how reading and writing can be acts of self-discovery. Stories allow us to look outwards with a discerning eye, but they invite us to look inwards, too. Whether we’re drawn to a ...

Write On! Features: Self-Editing vs Hiring A Professional by Dan Cross

01 September 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Dan Cross Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 11 Writing is our means of translating our boundless imaginations and ideas into forms others can make sense of. But if our words don’t communicate effectively, readers can end up confused and uninterested. Editing, then, is the act of making your writing ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases August 2023

26 August 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: Legacy Journaling By Merle R. Saferstein

25 August 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Merle R. Saferstein Shortly after reading The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank, I bought my first diary with a pink faux leather cover and a lock to keep my thoughts safe. I wrote in it periodically throughout my junior high school years and filled a few diaries. ...

Write On! Features: Publish And Be Damned – On Publisher Responsibility by Mollie Hogg

18 August 2023 News, WriteOn Features

(Originally published in Write On! magazine, issue 8 as The Big Debate) By Mollie Hogg Whether aspiring or experienced, we writers want our work to reach as many people as possible. For most of us, an important sign of success is also whether we make our mark on the world. Secretly, we ...

Write On! Features: A Writers’ Guide To Resilience by Alice Fowler

11 August 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Alice Fowler When I submitted my debut short story collection, The Truth Has Arms And Legs, for publication a year ago, I needed to come up with a theme. For a while, I scratched my head. My stories are about love and loss, bravery and second chances; our ability as ...

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