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Friday Features: Documenting My Mental Health

By Eché Egbuonu If we were given yearbooks after finishing secondary school, I doubt that I would have received many votes for the 'most likely to get sectioned.' Getting sectioned means being admitted to a mental health hospital, regardless of whether or not you agree to it. During the summer of 2015, ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Plastic Free Month

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to July’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. This month, I’m using my page to share thoughts about our relationship with plastic: July is plastic free month. If, like me, you’re shocked to see images of plastic in our oceans and on our beaches, you’ll be happy to pause and ...

Friday Features: The Last Beacons Of Free Speech

By Chandni Maugi In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government keeps its people in chains: through distraction, leisure, and unrestricted sexual pleasure. Looking into our past, populations were controlled through fear of angry gods with signs of a solar eclipse, or flooding being presented as evidence of disfavour. Fear is ...

Monday Moments: Creative Movement

Introduced By Holly King Our new theme at Write On! is ‘Keep Going: Creating With Perseverance And Courage’ and from this, I thought about what the first Monday Moments theme could be and came up with Creative Movement. We can interpret this in many ways: from how we use our bodies ...

Friday Features: Leaving A Childhood Faith Behind

By Jaye Viner I was always curious about those people who marry their adolescent sweethearts. The things that make a relationship work when we’re teens are not the same things that make a relationship work in our thirties. And yet, people do this. I wonder about them. Are they fundamentally the ...

Writer Of The Month: Palak Tewary

Introduced by Dagmara Drozdowska Being a part of the ‘Pen to Print’ family gives me amazing opportunities to meet people who share the same interest and understand what it’s like to be a writer. Due to the pandemic, we were not able to meet in person, but it gives me great ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases June

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, so we've created a Spotlight page every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads available. The list has been curated by Lisa Roullier and myself, based on books ...

Friday Features: A Way To Showcase Your Work

Patrick Forsyth reviews the rewarding process of producing an anthology Most writers want to be read – and be published – and publication may not be easy to achieve. Of course, it is possible to self-publish, though widespread sales are uncertain and the whole process is likely hard work. So for ...

Thursday Connectors: The Never Ending Covid Story

By Farzana Hakim Lockdown, Red lists, Quarantines And Second Waves    Hi, all. Welcome to this month’s Thursday Connectors, with me, your host, Farzana Hakim. I’m super glad the sun has been out and shining brightly over the UK skies, bringing some joy back into our lives! I’m finally beginning to enjoy the simple ...