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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Power Of Words And Voices

13 June 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen June is such an exciting time, as we feel summer is with us at last. I’ve been to the Hay Festival since I shared the May page with you and I feel inspired by all the voices I heard there. It was a chance to celebrate the power ...

Write On! Features: Relevant Conversations: Live Podcast, Co-Creation At Hay Festival

09 June 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Amanda Wynne Introduction On Wednesday 31st May, around 70 attendees joined the Write On! team in The Marquee at Hay Festival for a live podcast recording. Write On! Editor, Madeleine White, introduced the event, centered around an exercise in co-creation, encouraging diverse voices to shape and contribute to discussions. Fellow panel ...

Monday Moments: Connecting Inner And Outer Voices

05 June 2023 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall Continuing this month’s theme of ‘Hearing Voices: Inner Voices, Outer Voices And Connected Voices,’ I’ve been thinking about the ways writing helps us connect our inner and outer voices. It’s often easy for us to get lost in our thoughts, but writing – even if it’s left ...

Write On! Features: Birchington Literary Festival… More Than Words – A Volunteer And Founder’s Perspective

02 June 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Julia ‘Jules’ Szczepanski And Geraldine Watson tell us about Birchington Literary Festival, taking place on 17-18 June. To set the scene, Birchington-On-Sea is in Thanet, east Kent. We’re a large coastal village of around 10,400 people, where more than 60 per cent of our population is over 50 years old, and ...

Writer Of The Month: James Waller

29 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Mary Walsh James Waller is a poet who has never had a poem published. I was shopping for plants and visited a visited the garden centre cafe for lunch. I didn’t buy anything for the garden but noticed a display on the wall of the café many poems, all ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases May 2023

27 May 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: Crowd Funding – The Why, The What And The How by Emily Inkpen

26 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Emily Inkpen Making money from creative projects can be an uphill struggle, especially for indie writers and producers. As getting our work out into the world inevitably takes a certain level of investment, these funds must be found in our own pockets, or through creative methods. As a science fiction ...

Write On! Features: Ten Stories (just waiting to be written) by Jilly Henderson-Long

19 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Jilly Henderson-Long PROCRASTINATION – one of the writer’s worst enemies! We all know how it is, and there is no point pretending we don’t, because we’re fooling nobody but ourselves. We go out of our way to set aside some writing time, the chores are done, the kids are in ...

Write On! Features: Diversity in Publishing: How Can We Level The Playing Field? by Amber Hall

12 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Amber Hall Today, diversity is a hot topic. This is fantastic, obviously. It’s great that we’re starting to talk about the ways things such as race, gender, sexuality, class and religion impact the opportunities we have. It is not, after all, a level playing field. And though the myth of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Hearing Voices

09 May 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen May’s Thoughtful Tuesday page is very much about our current theme of Hearing Voices: Inner Voices, Outer Voices, Connected Voices and I have some fabulous writing to share with you today. First, though, I’d like to acknowledge and greet the arrival of spring. The month of May is going to ...

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