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Thursday Connectors: 2021 Crappy, Happy Moments

23 December 2021 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi all. Farzana here. Your host for the final edition of Thursday Connectors for this year. I really couldn’t be happier to be finally bidding goodbye to 2021! The year has been terrible for me. I don’t even know where to start. I’ve had one down after another and ...

Showcase: Festive Reasons To Be Cheerful + Where Charity Begins + Joey The Little Christmas Tree

22 December 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

December's Showcases are introduced by Pen to Printer and Write On! Thoughtful Tuesdays editor, Eithne Cullen. In the words of the song, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Pen to Print and in the world around us. I hope you’re checking your lists and making sure ...

Write On! Audio December: Out Now!

21 December 2021 News

Write On! Audio: Storytelling From East London To The World – Episode Four 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 ...

Full Circles And Curved Balls – In Conversation With Children’s And YA Author, Sara Grant

19 December 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

By Charlotte Webb The older I get, the more I meet people like me. By that, I mean people who have spent years working in a job that was full of wonderful experiences at the time but wasn’t allowing them to fulfil their heart’s desire. Children’s writer Sara Grant is ...

Friday Features: Before, During And After A Very Lockdown Christmas

17 December 2021 News, WriteOn Features

Edited by Claire Buss When I had the idea for this feature – looking back at Christmas before and after the COVID-19 lockdown – we didn't have the Omicron variant and plan C, D or whatever weren't looming. It makes this look at Christmas and how we spend our time even ...

Showcase: A Christmas Poem + A Flash Of Winter + Christmas Resistance + Father Christmas + Waiting + Nana’s Pastry

15 December 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

December's Showcases are introduced by Pen to Print Alumni and Write On! Thoughtful Tuesdays editor, Eithne Cullen. Welcome to December 15th Showcase page. I’ve really been enjoying editing these pages, especially as they've been part of my personal countdown to Christmas, so I’d like to share another image from Pen to ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Writing With Wonder – A Child’s Magical View

14 December 2021 Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to December’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. December always brings a lot of different emotions and elements. It’s really winter now and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, in many, many ways! For my page toda,y I’m continuing to look at the world through a child’s eyes and Christmas ...

Write On! Interviews: Author David Donachie

12 December 2021 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews author David Donachie. David was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He was educated poorly at a Catholic Selective School, where he excelled in only three subjects: history, geography and truancy. He left school to work on a five-year apprenticeship in his father’s painting and decorating business, but left ...

Friday Features: What Inspires Me To Write by Mirabel Lavelle

10 December 2021 News, WriteOn Features

I am a young grandma, a teacher and the eldest daughter of a typical Maltese family. When I turned 20, I married my Sunderland sweetheart and emigrated to the North of England. It was November. I had to re-root in a very different environment to that of the traditional Mediterranean ...

Showcase: Poems Are Nice + The Signalman + A Caterer’s Guide To Holidays And Homicide

08 December 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

December's Showcases are introduced by Pen to Print Alumni and Write On! Thoughtful Tuesdays editor, Eithne Cullen. I know a lot of people are only just beginning to feel a bit of the Christmas Spirit we need at this time of year. So I’m opening today’s Showcase page with a fabulous ...

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