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Monday Memoirs: Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style

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Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style by Jean Fullerton Born a decade after WW2 ended, I’m a baby boomer and as such I was part of the last generation who remember the close-knit East Enders families that lived cheek by jowl in the cobbled streets clustered around the London Docks.   At that time, life had a rhythm of work and play that had gone on for generations. Men worked and women looked ...

Monday Memoirs: The Blackouts That Echo Today

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The Blackouts That Echo Today by Amanda King I grew up in the 1970s, a decade of strikes, three-day weeks, blackouts and piles of rotting rubbish on the streets. There was so much more, of course, the long hot summer of ’76 which seemingly went on forever, decimalisation, Space Hoppers, microwave ...

Saturday Spotlight: Latest Book Releases

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Introduced by Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  The printing press may be on hiatus but that doesn't mean writers stop writing or readers stop reading. Digital and audio downloads are growing ever more popular as an insatiable global appetite for a good story manifests itself. At Write On! and Pen ...

Friday Features: The Only Garden I Can Relax In

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Introduced by Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  Friday Features has been running on the Write On! and Pen to Print website for almost a year and it has been wonderful reading all the different submissions. We've had features with writing advice from writers at all different stages of their writing ...

Thursday Connectors: From Dagenham to the Bahamas

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by Farzana Hakim  Hi all! I’m checking in from my home in Dagenham because that's where I’m doing the lockdown, with my three kids and husband. No other place for it really; our safe haven, within the blossoming, suburbs of Greater London. And to let you all in on a secret, I’m trying my absolute best to connect with you on this nothing out of the ordinary grey sky day, with my nose and mouth covered with a flowery, pink, tasseled bandana. ...
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The World’s Scars

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by Jenny Gibson   Ask me again later which number is greater: All the world’s scars or all the heavens’ stars? With so much pain to hide, there’s little reason to feel pride. Through hot tears and hopeless sighs, the planet’s temperature will rise. Swallow down the poison of the seas, it’s up to us to do as we please. When did ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Spring

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by Eithne Cullen "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”  Pablo Neruda   Tuesday’s page is all about finding inspiration in words and thoughts and mindfulness. This weeks’ Write On! Extra theme is  From Head in the Clouds to Feet on the Ground, so to kick-start this very first Thoughtful Tuesday, I am using the reality of Spring and the new life ...

Monday Memoirs: A Post-War London Childhood

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Introduced by Holly King We kick off our first Write On! Extra ‘Monday Memoirs’ with a piece by Josephine Gee, reminiscing on her post-war Childhood in London and centring around the theme of food. Topical, considering today people are panic-buying and adjusting to not having access to the variety of food types we are used to; Josephine details the far more constraining and laborious tasks involved in buying and preparing ...

As a… Writer: Manjeet Mann

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This week Pen to Print alumnus Juneha Chowdhury interviews Manjeet Mann, a WriteNow alumni, actress, playwright, screenwriting and novelist. Launched in 2016, WriteNow was the brainchild of Penguin’s Head of Creative Responsibility, Siena Parker. The competition offers a handful of finalists the chance to work with a professional editor over twelve months to shape ...
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by Eithne Cullen   The tea hut’s closed no rowing boats for hire the Alfred Hitchcock’s shutters down; people walk despite the cold and mud and warnings to stay home and stay apart.   A little girl flies a kite laughing and free, a game of catch keeps women metres apart. Two guys walk past with bottles in their hands and swig Corona, trendy brand. Gorse glares blindingly, swans ...