Grief, Immortality And Pollution: Themes That Dominate These Finalist Stories In WAWA Competitions
While she grew up in Tennessee, 29-year-old Veronica Shreve - flash fiction finalist in the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA)...
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Jun 22, 20223 min read
International Participants Enjoy Latest Creative Writing Retreat In Ireland
Germany, the US, England and Ireland - an array of participants from different countries attended varied writing workshops in our latest...
Jun 11, 20226 min read
Death and devices: winning themes in ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’
Writing about the death of a friend and the emptiness it leaves is never easy but Canada-born Alli Mckenzie found it a cathartic...
Apr 22, 20227 min read
'Untying the Bracelets' & 'Time Runs Out' Are Two More Finalists
Scotland-born, Christine Colliar whose story Time Runs Out was a finalist in the flash fiction category of our ‘Three Word Headline’ Wild...
Apr 11, 20222 min read
French Countryside Writing Retreat Meets With Success
Under azure blue skies and brilliant sunshine, writers from Iceland, the US, Scotland, England and Canada gathered together for our...
Mar 19, 20227 min read
Ndaga Dancing, God's Particle And Catalonia Trilogy- All In One Lifetime
After a futile attempt to conform to English society by working for the Civil Service - an experience she describes as simply...
Mar 14, 20227 min read
Butterflies And Snakes, Exotic Muses
“I opened the email and almost cried. Unbelievable! And perfect timing. My husband had just undergone cancer surgery. I needed a...
Feb 26, 20222 min read
Catalan dance performance at Spring retreat in Languedoc
For an authentic flavour of Catalonia, visitors to the region must witness the lively traditional dances of the region and we are...
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Lifelong learning expert speaks at Languedoc retreat in March
From bank clerk to band leader, from RAF corporal to international executive and more than a quarter of a century travelling worldwide as...
Jan 19, 20223 min read
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Time To Travel To The ‘Hidden Jewel’ Of France With Covid travel restrictions now eased, ‘Ireland Writing Retreat’ is delighted to...
Dec 28, 20211 min read
‘Time’ For A New Writing Competition
Welcome to the fifth ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA) competition to welcome the New Year which we hope will provide challenge,...
Aug 16, 20216 min read
Mother Of Two Achieves A Double
As it has never happened before in our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ competitions, we simply had to highlight it - a single writer...
Mar 11, 20213 min read
Hot News: How-To Workshops On Memoir & Travel Writing
With participants and authors from Germany, the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland taking part, our inaugural Virtual Writing Retreat...
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Are You Up For This Challenge?
With Valentine’s Day upon us, no better way to kick-off our third ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA) than to choose that ‘many...
Feb 6, 20214 min read
Congratulations To The WAWA Flash Fiction Winner
We are delighted to publish below the winning story in the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) Flash Fiction category written by Arabella...
Dec 7, 20201 min read
Last Chance...
... to enter the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards. Deadline: midnight, Thursday, December 10. Deadlines. They can be the bane of our lives....
Nov 27, 20206 min read
Finding Nature Right Before Your Very Eyes
I’d like to share with you some of the instances in which I relied on Nature to help me encourage a certain mood or expectation in my reader
Nov 22, 20203 min read
Former CNN editor offers tips on incorporating Nature in writing
This lesson by author John DeDakis links closely to the second edition of WAWA competition focusing on the use of Nature in...
Oct 31, 20205 min read
Stories to Help You Celebrate Samhain
We wish you all a Happy Samhain weekend & look forward to reading your creative entries in our new WAWA competition over the coming weeks.
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