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Write On! Features: Writing For Children And The Child Within by Clare Povey

04 February 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Clare Povey If you are a resident of Barking & Dagenham – or have ever taken the 86 bus down Chadwell Heath High Street - then you have probably passed the Robert Jeyes Library. It looks like an entirely normal building. Red bricks stacked upon each other, between layers of ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases January

29 January 2022 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 every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list is based on books and ...

Write On! Features: From Dodge City To Gotham City: How The Western Shapes The Superhero Story by Joseph Dodd

28 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Joseph Dodd In the history of film, there have been, I think, two genres that, in their own times, dominated and shaped cinema. The first was the Western. The second, currently, is the superhero film. If these two apparently unrelated forms can rise to such prominence, there must be something ...

Write On! Audio January: Out Now!

26 January 2022 News

Write On! Audio: Storytelling From East London To The World – Episode Five Write On! Audio is a new podcast from Pen to Print. Taking the best bits from Write On! Magazine and Write On! Extra, we'll bring you writing tips, features, interviews and excerpts from the work of our contributors and guests. ...

Write On! Features: The Power Of A Muse by Meliha Avdic

21 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Meliha Avdic Muses are real! Hear me, hear me; they are real! If that makes me sound insane, I completely understand. After all, I (like many writers) spent years planning, plotting, writing out character bibles, timelines, chapter breakdowns, for everything I ever wrote, whether it’s a novel, novella, short story, ...

Thursday Connectors: Wonders Of The Mind

20 January 2022 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, it's Farzana, your host, bringing you the first Thursday Connectors of the year. Hooray and Happy New Year everybody, although the greeting may seem to be a few weeks too late, as February is fast approaching! I’m taking a really laid-back approach to life this year. You can’t ...

Write On! Issue 11 OUT TODAY

19 January 2022 News

Write On! 11, Write On! Extra and Write On! Audio – Storytelling From East London To The World Write On! 11 is out today! The theme of Writing With Wonder – The World Through Children’s Eyes, reflects the fact we’ll never look at things the way we once did. Our interview ...

Write On! Features: I Started Writing By Accident by Lulu Allison

14 January 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Lulu Allison We often make assumptions about what we should do with our lives based on what we've already done. For me, that was drawing. I spent so much time drawing and painting as a child that it seemed obvious I would make art my subject, and indeed that is ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Nonsense Poetry

11 January 2022 Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to the first ‘Thoughtful Tuesday’ page of 2022. It’s hard to believe it’s almost two years since we started the Extra pages to keep us going through what we thought might be a few weeks of lockdown. Yet here we still are, and we’re off to a ...

Monday Moments: Childlike Genius

10 January 2022 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Holly King We’re already two weeks into 2022 and the second year of Write On! Extra, which, I must say, has grown exponentially for such a young project. When we are young, though; that’s when the most creative ideas come about and we write with the most freedom. So, ...

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