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Thursday Connectors: Value Your Voices

Welcome to another great edition of Thursday Connectors with me your host, Farzana Hakim. This week, we’re going 'Down Under' to Queensland and we’ll be finding out about a Barking and Dagenham programme to get youngsters writing. But first, let’s talk a little about what’s happening across the globe. This past ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Values

by Eithne Cullen In Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windemere’s Fan, Lord Darlington says that a cynic is ‘A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Like many of the things Wilde wrote, this has slipped into common usage as a saying and could equally apply to a ...

Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020

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

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 ...

Monday Memoirs: Value vs Values

Introduced by Holly King In the months that we’ve been in lockdown, our lives have been thrown up in the air and our regimes scattered about on the floor, like the good old game of 52-Card Pickup (beware if your grandad asks you to play a game of cards that you’ve ...

As An… Editor: Jay Arscott

This week Write On! interviews editor Jay Arscott. A professional freelance editor since February 2018, Jay credits his background, and aphantasia for his eagle-eyed talent; spotting errors others simply don’t see. His work, and his affiliation with The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading are incredibly important to him but ...

Friday Feature: Creating The Basilwade Chronicles

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, ...