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Showcase: Version Ultra + The Map + Shuttlecocks And Shoelaces + My Amazing Flower

27 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

This is hello and goodbye from me! I’m Charlotte, Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation and, I'm sad to say, this is my last Showcase for November. Over the past four weeks, we’ve explored how difference can divide, how it can connect, and how it can challenge us ...

Cover Reveal Issue 23 of Write On! Magazine

22 November 2024 Blog, News

We're sure you've already seen it on social media but just in case... here is the official cover reveal for Issue 23 of Write On! Magazine, out December 12: This issue is being sponsored by The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation and features our lead interview with multi-award winning poet Jenny ...

Thursday Connectors: Personal Circumstance And Difference

21 November 2024 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi all, it's Farzana, your host of Thursday Connectors. Welcome to my November page, a fantastic Showcase linked to what’s important to you and those around you. Continuing with our theme of 'Difference,' I'm connecting with three writers who offer different perspectives around their life experiences; all of which ...

Showcase: Yesteryear + Greet My People For Me + I Notice… Strongly, Slightly, Not At All

20 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again! I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for November. I've thoroughly enjoyed sharing the fantastic writing from our contributors under this month’s theme of ‘Difference’. The pieces have offered the opportunity to consider how difference can arise and manifest, how difference can lead to new connections and understandings, and how ...

Write On! Features: So You Want To Be A Writer? by Nicola Garrard

15 November 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Nicola Garrard FIVE early steps to make your writing dreams come true! Publishing is tough. Being lucky enough to have your book published feels like a strike of lightning. If you tell your family you want to be an author, they’ll most likely pat your head and say, "Remember when you ...

Showcase: Breathless Air + O Mapa + What’s The Difference?

13 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello again! I’m Charlotte, your Showcase editor for November. This month, we’re thinking about the theme of ‘Difference’. As Prize Manager of The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation, I spend a lot of time reading and thinking about fictional differences: different cultures, different people and different times. In fact, in ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Recognising Difference

11 November 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to November’s Thoughtful Tuesday page, continuing on the theme of ‘Difference.’ I was looking at an old photo with my granddaughter recently and was interested to see how she recognised family members, even though their appearances have changed: going from beard to clean shaven and from long ...

Showcase: The Selene Project + Odder Still + You’re Not My F*cking Mother

06 November 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, and welcome to November’s first showcase! I’m Charlotte, and I’m the Prize Manager at the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, which is awarded by The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation. Established in 2015 by the late adventure author Wilbur Smith and his wife, Niso, the Foundation champions literacy and ...

Write On! Features: A Glimpse Of Anglo India by Clare Jenkins

01 November 2024 News, WriteOn Features

By Clare Jenkins As a journalist, I’ve always written. I’ve also interviewed many writers, including Margaret Atwood, Melvyn Bragg, Jackie Collins, Margaret Drabble, PD James… When I interviewed Rumer Godden, who wrote wonderful novels about India, including Black Narcissus, she told me: “I was born with a gift for telling stories. ...

Showcase: Legend Of The White Hanky + I Was Almost Asleep + Bad Relations

30 October 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, I'm Zoe Molloy, a writer from east London, with an interest in people and their stories. Welcome to my final October Showcase. I've so enjoyed sharing some fantastic writing that has been contributed under 'Difference.' As we step into Autumn, with visible differences in the colour of the leaves and ...

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