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Write On! Showcase

In these challenging times, it is our aim to galvanise writers and ordinary people to come together around things that matter to them. With this in mind, the Write On! Extra Showcase highlights wonderful writing, while also demonstrating how the power of creativity can positively influence people’s lives across different communities.

 

From February, our Showcase will be run by rolling editors. With the support of Dan Cross (original Showcase Editor and a Write On! associate editor), monthly editors will be picking out from the wonderful  creative writing submissions you send us! We are on the look out for poetry, short stories, flash fiction and script and book extracts. 
Submissions should be no longer than 2000 words and, if possible, fit the themes, as announced on the home page in The Editor’s Introduction. Please submit any images you have permission to use and that illustrate your work. Write On! Extra also accepts video or audio content. Do include contact details and any relevant social media IDs, such as Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. See below for further submission details.
If you have any questions or ideas, please get in touch with pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk or our Editor, Madeleine White on Insta/Twitter: @madeleinefwhite

Showcase: The Broken Cycle + Gannin’ Hyem, Mate

  • 29 July 2026
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Edited By Molly Ovenden Welcome to the fifth and final week of July’s Showcase: Nostalgia! Over the course of this...

Showcase: Coffee, Whisky And Tea + From The Indigenous Village To The British Pavement: The Journey Of Flower-Woman + Marsha Malcolm Howard Johnson’s

  • 22 July 2026
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Edited By Molly Ovenden Welcome to Week Four of July’s Showcase: Nostalgia! At 39, I’m not old, but I’m old...

Showcase: All In The Blink Of An Eye + The Thunderstorm + Grandmother

  • 15 July 2026
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Edited By Molly Ovenden When I told my husband I’m working with so many amazing pieces of writing on the...

Showcase: Do You Know Your Ancestry? + No One Is Merely Shadow + Summer Of 1985

  • 8 July 2026
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Edited By Molly Ovenden It is very human to desire a connection to our ancestors, to know from whom and...

Showcase: To The Editor Who Rejected The Work Or Art + Dust In The Seams

  • 1 July 2026
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Edited by Molly Ovenden Welcome to July’s Showcase: Nostalgia! I am Molly Ovenden, a contemplative poet. Vintage Smith-Corona typewriters in...

Showcase: CanalAbility + The London Gardens Society + Marking Time

  • 24 June 2026
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Edited by Gloria Maloney Welcome to my final Showcase for June. On this page, we look at different ways we...

Showcase: Finding My Inner Cavewoman + Out Of The Cave + Leaving The World Behind + Watch The Birdie

  • 17 June 2026
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Edited by Gloria Maloney Hello, and welcome to my penultimate June Showcase. We’re looking at the theme ‘Borrowing’ from nature....

Showcase: Music + Dark Blackberry Wine + The Ballad Borrower + I’ll Tell My Ma

  • 10 June 2026
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Edited by Gloria Maloney Hello, and welcome to week two of my June Showcase! The pieces I’ve chosen to share...

Showcase: I Remember, I Remember + Vintage (Extract)

  • 3 June 2026
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Edited by Gloria Maloney Hi, I’m Gloria Maloney and I’m your Showcase Editor for June. I’m a poet, artist and...

Showcase: Money Could Buy Me All These Things + The Slow Welcoming Of We + Borrowed Light

  • 27 May 2026
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Edited by Vrushali Khadilkar Hello, this is Vrushali Khadilkar and you’re reading my fourth and final May Showcase. My peers...

Showcase: Loaned Some + Let Me Borrow A Little More + Facing The Singularity Of AI

  • 20 May 2026
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Edited by Vrushali Khadilkar Welcome to the third Showcase of the month! Recently, the calendar pinged to tell me  it...

Showcase: Ouch! + A Glimmer Of Hope

  • 13 May 2026
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Edited by Vrushali Khadilkar Welcome to my second Showcase! I’ve been going for early morning runs to catch the sunrise...

Showcase: With Tender, Tender Paws + Between The Heart’s Outpouring And The Farewell – My Emotional Memories + The Meds We Borrow

  • 6 May 2026
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Edited by Vrushali Khadilkar Welcome to my first Showcase of the month! May has arrived with furious and blazing heat...

Showcase: The Silenced Drum + My Readers’ World + The Evenings We Borrowed + Snatched Moments

  • 29 April 2026
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Edited by Sebastian Elanko Welcome to my last Showcase for April. I wanted to start by saying a huge thank...

Showcase: The Taste Of Borrowing + The Returned Rhythm + A Small Escape To Memory Lane + Spring

  • 22 April 2026
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Edited by Sebastian Elanko Welcome to this week’s Showcase, where I want to focus on borrowed heritage. When we think of...

Showcase: Like My Father + Arnold + World Art Day + Identity After Brain Injury

  • 15 April 2026
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Edited by Sebastian Elanko Welcome to my third Showcase of the month. This week I wanted to start by saying...

Showcase: Echoes In A Vacuum + Reclaiming The Pages + The Fighter In Me + Air Lovers

  • 8 April 2026
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Edited by Sebastian Elanko Welcome to April’s second Showcase and I thought I’d start by sharing that National Poetry Month...

Showcase: To Our Friend, The Indestructible Light + A Clockwork Bird + No One Listened To The Radio Any More + Heralding Winters End

  • 1 April 2026
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Edited by Sebastian Elanko Welcome to the first of my April Showcases – I’m excited to be your editor for...

Showcase: The Choice Of Moving + To Divorce? Or Not…? + Creating Outside My Comfort Zone

  • 25 March 2026
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Edited by Nick Burdett Hello. Nick here, with my fourth March Showcase page. We’re taking our last gasps of the...

Showcase: What If It All Works Out? + Women Clothe The Space + Fork In The Road

  • 18 March 2026
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Edited by Nick Burdett Hi, Nick Burdett here for the third of my March Showcase pages. This week, I’ve been...

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