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Online ReadFest 2021 is Almost Here! – 10 Years of Reading Pleasure

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Monday 6 September to Friday 24 September. Coming soon our 10th FREE literary festival! Supporting Pen to Print’s theme this year, Curated by Us we are delighted to showcase writers from both Barking and Dagenham and further afield inspired by the writing and reading communities we support. This amazing festival provides a ...

The Pen to Print Awards 2021 – Competition Results

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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.  We were pleased to hold at a virtual ceremony on Thursday 29 July 2021. CLICK HERE ...

Favourite Monday Moments

Monday Moments, News
Introduced By Holly King This Monday Moments, I'm taking a look back at what we’ve achieved in the last sixteen months. While Write On! Extra was not something any of us expected to be doing for this long, it’s been great for our community and for creatives, including me!  In a ...

Write On! Interviews Tim Ewins

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Tim Ewins had an eight-year stand-up career alongside his accidental career in finance, before turning to write fiction. He’s previously written for DNA Mumbai, had two short stories highly commended and published in Michael Terence Short Story Anthologies, and had a very brief acting stint (he’s in the film Bronson, somewhere ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases July

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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: Free Writing And Grief

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By Charlotte Baker “So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon Free writing is an established prewriting technique that is known to evoke ‘raw’, often deemed unusable, material. However, only after ten years of being an author and experiencing grief myself, did I start to unlock ...

Showcase: Perseverance + Heritage

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Pass It On This week, in my final Showcase, I explore writers who take me back to my favourite reading as a child, with what we would call 'traditional storytelling'. My first stories were Anansi stories from my parents and relatives and this helped me embrace Ruth Manning Saunders as one ...

Writer Of The Month: Jenny Grant

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Introduced by Mary Walsh Jenny Grant; September 1966 - May 2021 I am both honoured and deeply saddened to introduce Jenny Grant as our writer of the month. Jenny passed away suddenly in May, leaving her husband Jon and her daughter Amber. Jenny was a great friend to me and to all at ...

Write On! Interviews Tamkara Adun

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Tamkara Adun is the Founder of ' Ọdúnìfẹ́ African Language & African History' school, an online educational platform that connects learners of various African languages with qualified language tutors from the African continent. They also teach African history from a decolonised and African-centered point of view. The school's overarching goal ...