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Write On! 5 : COVID-19 Special Edition Launching Today!

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An exclusive interview with Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Corry sits at the heart of an extraordinary COVID-19 edition of Write On! 5. However, Jane’s is just one of the voices that has contributed experience, strength and hope to the issue. This Special Edition (see it here)  brings together the ...

Cloudburst Q&A

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Looking for something to entertain the young ones during the holiday? Check out the Q&A sesssion we have produced in partnership with Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation, premiered on 6 July 2020. We have also inclucded handy links to teaching resources that can be used by parents and teachers. Suitable for 10 ...

Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020

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Get Involved The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays.  Read at least six library books of your choice to collect rewards along the way – all for FREE. There’s a website to add to the fun too! Children can take part in the Challenge online at sillysquad.org.uk.    Use your library card ...

Love Letters to the World Writing Project

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UPDATE 27 May 2020 Pen to Print are pleased to announce that we will be supporting Love Letters to the World for the rest of the summer for 15 weeks, in addition to the orginal 4 week project so will now run until 15 September 2020. This new online creative writing workshop ...

Friday Feature: Creating The Basilwade Chronicles

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by Dawn Knox Credit: Lucy Lawson Photography When I started writing the first chapter of The Basilwade Chronicles, I had no idea it would eventually be included in a book. It was simply a short story written to present at one of the Basildon Writers’ Group meetings, where once a month, ...

First Story & National Writing Day on 24 June 2020

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To support National Writing Day on 24 June 2020 First Story are sharing a new video tutorials and highlighting some resources from their partners. Check out their new resources we have shared the writing tutorials on our site to see more go to our  Films and  Podcasts page Happy writing! Snap and ...

Friday Feature: Dagenham Is The Protagonist

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by Elaine Spires While I was growing up, I was blissfully unaware I was doing so in a place that so much of the country would have looked down its nose at and considered ‘deprived’.  I didn’t know it was sneeringly referred to as Corned Beef City by those who thought ...

Friday Feature: The Threads That Bind Us

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by Eithne Cullen  I live in a quiet road where people are friendly and say hello to each other when we pass in the street. We chat with some about the weather or how the children are. Many of the neighbours were well established when we moved in over twenty years ...