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Showcase: Victory Of Spring Over Winter + The Dress + April Morning

31 March 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

This is going to be the last time I edit Showcase. It’s been a pleasure to be able to share such diverse pieces of writing throughout March. We end the month with a spring story (Victory Of Spring Over Winter) and another piece (The Dress), which shows a woman getting ...

Showcase: Leaning Out Too Far + Distance + Awake

24 March 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

It’s a pleasure to be presenting Showcase again and this week I’m going to be sharing two pieces with a local flavour. One of the great positives working with Pen to Print over the last few years, is to know how many of the voices we share are local, telling ...

Writer Of The Month: Farzana Hakim

22 March 2021 News, WriteOn Features

Presented by Eithne Cullen I’m delighted to be introducing our Writer Of The Month, Farzana Hakim, who has been a writer friend for a long time. We met through Pen to Print and The Book Challenge and she’s had great success in that competition with her two novels. Today, she’s sharing ...

Writer Of The Month: Eithne Cullen

22 February 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Julie Dexter This month Eithne offers us a collection of poems and two extracts from her novels. The first two poems each have a theme of ageing, though, they are vastly different in context. Metaphors and allusions within the first poem are tightly woven into the rhyme scheme featuring couplets ...

Showcase: Voyage In The Dark + Half Term Reading + East End Women’s Museum

17 February 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

We’re almost two-thirds of the way through February and things are a little cold. But, with the recent snow and the days growing longer, there is more light, more birds chirping, more squirrels burying food for the next winter. Soon, we’ll be moving into spring and (hopefully) getting a bit ...

Showcase: The German Heiress + The Good Old Days

10 February 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, readers. It’s the middle of the week and there’s the weekend to look forward to, although I find that, during lockdown and with every day being covered by a nondescript grey sky drizzling with fine rain for hours on end, the days themselves seem to blend together. We seem to ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Flash Fiction

09 February 2021 Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen This week’s Thoughtful Tuesday is all about stories. We writers tell them, shape them, edit them and love them. We connect with readers who love stories in all shapes and sizes. To begin, this week, I asked the Pen to Print writers whether any of them have Flash pieces ...

The Pen to Print Competitions for 2021 Are Now Open!

08 February 2021 Blog, News

Competitions are now open to new entries. Details of all of the Pen to Print competitions, how to enter and T&Cs can be found here on our website, go to pentoprint.org/competitions. Do you fancy having a go at writing a novel? Do you prefer keeping it brief and write short stories? Are you ...

The Pen to Print Awards 2020 – Competition Results

02 February 2021 Blog, News

By Lena Smith, Library Project Manager - London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. The Pen to Print Awards are our annual celebration of Pen to Print’s work where we announce the winners of our competitions. The Pen to Print Awards 2020, were postponed from June 2020 and we were pleased to ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

25 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

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