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Friday Features: Judge A Book By Its Cover by Carol Van Den Hende

29 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

How Authors Can Inspire Great Design By Carol Van Den Hende, MBA Why design? When we consider storytelling, we usually think of the written or spoken words that make up the tale. However, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of book covers to evoke emotion and spark interest in a story. After all, humans ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

25 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

Friday Features: It Happened In Essex by Colin Payne

22 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Colin Payne It’s not often that two branches of the arts get to work together on a fund-raising drive for NHS volunteers but, recently, Basildon Writers’ Group released a book to help raise much-needed funds for Basildon Hospital Radio, BHR 87.7 FM. The volunteers at the radio station had to leave ...

Thursday Connectors: Hoping For A Jolly New Year

21 January 2021 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim A ginormous warm welcome from me, Farzana, your host, for this, the very first ‘Thursday Connectors’ of 2021. And what big hopes we have for the new year, huh? After the long lockdowns and devastations of 2020, my only wish is that we all have a healthier and ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Resolutions

19 January 2021 Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Happy New Year! We ended 2020 on the theme of Hope and carry on our new hopes into 2021. I thought I’d start the year off thinking about the way we all make resolutions as one year ends and the next begins. Sometimes these resolutions are made as the ...

Friday Features: Seeking Truth In Fiction by Julie Carrick Dalton

15 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Julie Carrick Dalton Truth hides in fissures and hollows, in broken places and empty parts. It can be buried, crushed, or burnt, but the truth will always rise. This the opening to my debut novel, Waiting For The Night Song. It also sums up the journey I embarked on when I ...

Monday Moments: Marching Ever Onwards

11 January 2021 Monday Moments, News

Introduced by Holly King January is the month of resetting: resolutions, starting a new year, a new you, a new future. Yet it’s never made much sense to me, because the calendar year is an external construct. You can’t reset in any literal way, and I’ve never been able to keep ...

Friday Features: My Experiment In Writing By Lucy Kaufman

08 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Lucy Kaufman Towards the end of last year, I embarked on an experiment in writing. I aimed to write a whole new novel in a year, as well as write it in a completely new and better way. I committed to this experiment wholeheartedly, even writing and signing a contract ...

Happy New Year

01 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Claire Buss Changing the year is always something I look forward to. I like the arbitrariness of going to bed in one year and waking up in another, just because numbers say so. I also enjoy thinking about what I'm going to conquer in this new fresh year, because, even ...

Write On! Issue 6 Thursday Youth Connectors: What’s Your Colour?

31 December 2020 News, Thursday Connectors

While the Write On! team take a well-deserved festive break, we will still be sharing every day with pages from issue 6 of the magazine and some special messages just for you! Today's page is Thursday Youth Connectors: What's Your Colour? Read the rest of Write On! Issue 6 by clicking here. ***** Of ...

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