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Write On! Features: Now Your Work Is Organised

19 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mary Walsh My last feature gave you the story of me trying to organise my work. Have you done yours yet? Are there still nooks and crannies filled with odd bits of writing? Have you retrieved all this precious treasure and bullied it into some sort of order? I hope ...

Thursday Connectors: South Asian Heritage Month

18 July 2024 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. Farzana, your host, is here to introduce a celebratory special edition. Our Thursday Connectors are all about South Asian Heritage this time, to coincide with one of my favourite and busiest months of the year. For the past few years, I’ve been working tirelessly to bring stories ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Nilson Semedo

14 July 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author Nilson Semedo Nilson is a ten-year-old writer, currently studying at a primary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. He enjoys writing and loves to see others who share the same passion as him. WO: What inspired you to write in the first place, and what ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Change

09 July 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my Thoughtful Tuesday page for July. I’m going to be sharing a lot of writing about change, our current theme here at Write On! I’d like to start with some writing about a massive change: the change of moving from one country to another, one culture to ...

Write On! Features: The London Typewriters

05 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Natalia The London Typewriters story began in 2012, when we went searching for something special and quirky to start as an independent enterprise. After many trips to a variety of car-boot sales we failed to find anything unique, but then one day an old broken typewriter caught the eye of Alex ...

Monday Moments: Chance And Change

01 July 2024 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Amber Hall This month, our new theme is ‘Change’, and I’ve been thinking about the interconnectedness of chance and change. So much of life hinges on a moment. Our trajectories are shaped by nanoseconds we might not even notice. These ‘sliding door moments,’ as they’re known, can alter our ...

Write On! Interviews: Melanie Reid Reborn – Making The Invisible Visible

30 June 2024 News, WriteOn Interviews

By Dr Afsana Elanko (c) Murdo Macleod Scottish journalist and author of The World I Fell Out Of, Melanie Reid MBE, has always spoken directly into my own experiences, both as a writer and as a medical doctor. I came across her work through her wider journalism, as well as The ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases June 2024

29 June 2024 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 ...

Feed Into Our New Culture & Heritage Strategy

28 June 2024 Blog, News

In Barking and Dagenham we believe culture and creativity are an important part of building a strong community, and through the work we do at the Council we want to make sure all local people have chances to be creative. We want to ensure our communities here in Barking and Dagenham experience ...

Write On! Issue 21 OUT TODAY

26 June 2024 News

Issue 21, Out Now Our five-year anniversary issue, sponsored by All Stories is out today. The publication of 21 issues of Write On! is truly testament to this issue’s theme of 'Overcoming'. Overcoming isn’t just about dealing with difficult of situations, it’s also about how we go about to finding ...

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