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Showcase: Veterans’ Voices + Long Distance Call + Doesn’t Sound Right + Our Future + A Model Setting + Housekeeping + One Step For Humanity + The Slip Away Tree + The Eternal Trend + Save The Wye

By Mirabel Lavelle (c) E.M. Blake, 2023 Welcome to my last June Showcase. It’s been an honour to introduce new voices and showcase returning ones this month. Next week, I'll be sending off the first draft of my children’s book to my editor, so wish me luck! Saturday 24 June marked Armed ...

Write On! Issue 17 OUT TODAY

Write On! 17 is out today: Themed Hearing Voices: Inner Voices, Outer Voices And Connected Voices, this issue features an exclusive interview with the seminal children’s and YA writer Sita Brahmachari. She speaks to Amber Hall about her latest bestseller, ‘When Shadows Fall’ and how love binds cultures, community, nature ...

Write On! Interviews: Writer Stephen Leach

Write On! interviews writer Stephen Leach. Stephen works as a freelance content writer and production editor and has written for various websites and local and national newspapers. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Winchester, as well as an MA in Contemporary History and International Politics from ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases June 2023

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, playwrights and audiences, so we've created a Spotlight page on the last Saturday of the month, showcasing some of the exciting new reads and plays available. The curated list ...

Write On! Features: Early Writing Days by Dee Gordon

By Dee Gordon Dee has been writing full-length non-fiction books since selling her recruitment business in 2000. Hailing from the East End, she now lives in Southend. She has had 19 books published, as well as articles in Best Of British, Essex Life, Yours and Take-a-Break. School as an infant in Bethnal ...

Thursday Connectors: Hear My Voice

By Farzana Hakim From Women’s Creative Writing Workshops To Stories From The South Asian Diaspora Hi, all!  Welcome to an exciting Thursday Connectors, with me, your host, Farzana Hakim. In my previous edition, I promised you a different format from the usual for my June  Connectors, and being one who honours her ...
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New Opportunities

Discover new opportunities to work with Pen to Print, Barking & Dagenham and our many partners in our new Opportunities page. Here on this new page,  Pen to Print will list new grant funds open for applications, along with opportunities to work with and be be paid to deliver events, workshops ...

Write On! Interviews: Author Sita Brahmachari

Creating Stories, Connecting Voices Write On!'s Amber Hall discusses the purpose and power of storytelling with YA Author Sita Brahmachari. Before sitting down to interview Sita Brahmachari, the acclaimed Young Adult (YA) author, I’d only half-settled on the idea of speaking about my own trauma. I’ve lived with an eating disorder for most of my ...