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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Write On! Features: Proud To Be Self-published by Emma Rosen

05 May 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Emma Rosen I’m sitting behind a table, my books laid out in front of me. To my right and left sit local authors I’ve known for a number of years. The day is gloriously hot and people are thronging to the festival we’re part of. A man walks past stalls, ...

Write On! Features: A Guide To Hay Festival 2023 For Budding Writers by Julie Finch, Hay Festival CEO

28 April 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Julie Finch, Hay Festival CEO It’s that time of year! Books are arriving by the crate load in Hay-on-Wye and our Hay Festival 2023 programme is hot off the presses. As festival goers everywhere are making their selections of what to see and do at the world’s best-loved book event, 25 ...

Writer Of The Month: Akshitha Ramalingam

24 April 2023 News, WriteOn Features

Introduced by Laura Maclennan From short poems about love to more detailed pieces of writing about race, difference and a societal inability to stop pitting the human race against each other, reading Akshitha’s work ahead of this introduction I was, as Akshitha herself hoped I’d be, left holding my breath as ...

Write On! Features: A Poet’s Tit For Tat by Gertcha Cowson

21 April 2023 News, WriteOn Features

By Gertcha Cowson I hear what you’re all asking, “Why does a bipolar-fuelled, loudly dressed, eccentric poet need to wear a wide-brimmed hat on a cloudy day?” Well, for one thing, I am now 50-odd years old and my eyes work perfectly fine, thank you very much, proper 20/20 and, quite frankly, I ...

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