The Writer's Spark
Coaching Competition!
The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition is now open!
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The competition gives one creative writer an opportunity to win one prize comprising:
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Coaching from acclaimed coach and mentor Fiona Fenwick!
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A gift card from Brain.fm for a free full year!
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Editing from Sheelagh Caygill.
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A Q&A interview published with On Creative Writing.
Full competition details for The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition are here. The full Competition rules and more information are here.​​
The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition closes at 11 a.m. MST, on Friday, December 19, 2025.
Land Acknowledgement
On Creative Writing respectfully acknowledges that we live and create on the traditional lands and territories of Indigenous Peoples, including the Anishinaabe, Dené, Nehiyawak (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Otipemisiwak (Métis), Sioux Nakoda, Stoney Nakoda, Tsuu T'ina and more. This land is subject to Treaty 6. This land has long served as meeting grounds, travel.​​​​
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This land has long served as meeting grounds, travel routes, and gathering places for many diverse First Nations including the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee, as well as Métis, and Inuit peoples. We recognize all these Nations and communities, whose rich histories, languages, cultures, and traditions continue to thrive and are key to the enrichment of all our communities.
About
On Creative Writing
A COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
On Creative Writing is a community for creative writers, and we're here to explore all creative writing, including poetry, prose, flash fiction, through to novels, novellas, screenplays, scripts, and creative nonfiction.
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On Creative Writing is from Sheelagh Caygill, a journalist and writer who's currently taking an MA in Contemporary Creative Writing at Northeastern University in London, U.K.
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Sheelagh Caygill
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Sheelagh has been writing for decades, and began writing poetry first. Three of her poems were published in Ontario in the Wee Giant and Mamashee publications.
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On her website, Sheelagh is exploring how childhood emotional trauma can affect and impact a writer's creative practice, and would like to hear from people in the creative arts who have had similar experiences.
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Sheelagh Caygill in Jasper, Canada
Sheelagh originally trained as a journalist and has worked for media outlets in Canada and the U.K.
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She advises creative writers: "If you're a journalist and want to write creatively, begin your writing immediately; don't confine it to an unspecified date in the future. Move between the forms to be consciously aware of the different demands and skills required for each. This way, when you switch to creative writing, you won't struggle to write lyrically and with colour."
Sheelagh has a BA in history and politics and is taking an MA in Contemporary Creative Writing at Northeastern University London. She creates websites and podcasts for writers and lives in Canada.
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