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Write On! Features: Non-Fiction, This Is Your Time by Robert Nurden

22 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Robert Nurden The less elevated role that non-fiction plays compared to the glitzy world of fiction can be detected straightaway in its lumbering prefix ‘non’. The type of writing in which facts are paramount is described in terms of what it is not. Hardly a good start! Biographers and historians like ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Patricia Sangolo

17 March 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews Author Patricia Sangolo Patricia says: "I'm a 36-year-old author, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and have lived in the East London suburb of Barking and Dagenham since migrating to the United Kingdom at the age of four. Despite the traumas I faced in my childhood and ...

Write On! Features: Letter To A Poet Of Colour by Hongwei Bao

15 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Hongwei Bao The title of this feature takes inspiration from a book, Letters To A Writer Of Colour, edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro (Vintage 2023). The book is useful and inspiring, but I've also noticed that all those featured are prose writers and I've yet to come across ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Gareth Southwell

10 March 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews Author Gareth Southwell Gareth says: "I’m a writer, illustrator and philosopher who lives in Wales. I’ve been involved with philosophy for over 30 years (teaching writing, examining and researching). I’m the author of a number of books on the subject and I’ve a PhD on the subject of ...

Write On! Features: How To Prepare For A Talk by Jilly Henderson-Long

08 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Jilly Henderson-Long I've been lucky enough to do a number of talks at schools and writing groups. As a writer, I find this an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, yet only last year, prior to delivering two talks to two separate Year Four classes at a local school, I still found ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Christine Naggenda-Ighorue

03 March 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews Author Christine Naggenda-Ighorue Christine says "My name is Christine Naggenda. I'm a mother of two children. I'm also a Community Nursery Nurse working with children and their families, providing support for the children to achieve and thrive in their development. My book is fiction and full of humour, ...

Write On! Features: How To Begin Writing by Millie Murray

01 March 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Millie Murray Everyone writes, or has written at some point in their lives. The most obvious place where writing experiences have occurred, is during one’s school years. This is regardless of one’s writing ability. I’m generalising, of course, but when people state, “I would like to be a writer,” they ...

Write On! Interviews: Dialogue Books Founder Sharmaine Lovegrove

25 February 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews Dialogue Books Founder Sharmaine Lovegrove. The interviewer is Iole Dexter. Originally printed in Issue 19 of Write On! magazine. Dialogue Books: Abundance Comes In Many Forms (c) Robert Rieger Dialogue founder, Sharmaine Lovegrove, is a force. Everyone who meets her feels it, and I’m no different. We discussed – and at ...

Write On! Features: From Fact to Fiction – The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction by Mark Butterworth

23 February 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mark Butterworth One of the most appealing and enduring literary genres is historical fiction. Readers enjoy the drama of stories that are set in a recognisable context, time and place, with dramatic characters who play out the events. But it is a truth, (almost) universally accepted, that there is a ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Maggie Freeman

18 February 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author Maggie Freeman Maggie says: "I used to teach Creative Writing and allied subjects in Adult Community Learning in Essex, but when we moved to Chingford about five years ago, I retired, with all the best of writing intentions, of course! But sometimes life gets in the way ...

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