Events, Classes and Workshops

Events, Classes and Workshops.

To enjoy our free programme, places at our events, classes and workshops must be booked.
(Unless it is a specified drop-in session.)
You will be directed to the Eventbrite platform to reserve your place.
To join online events you will need to sign up for a free Eventbrite Account.
Please read the booking details carefully and any ‘Additional Information’ in your confirmation emails.
To help you get the best experience you can also see our How to Guide for accessing online events.
We look forward to seeing you soon!

For all enquiries E: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk T: 020 8227 2267

London Library Masterclasses:

Working with our partners The London Library we are offering a series of one-off masterclasses at this prestigious central London library located in St James’s Square. Close to St James’s Park, Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace.

Join in the Masterclass for £1 ,then get to soak up the atmosphere of this fantastical library for free for the rest of the day! With a labyrinth of books stacks, multiple reading rooms and study space, don’t forget to visit the Times Room to discover original copies of over 200 years of the Times newspaper. You might even bump into one of the many famous authors who are members.

Day memberships and annual memberships can be purchased visit The London Library for more information.

London Library Masterclasses

Jun 07

Pen to Print: Creative Writing Class with Ian Ayris

Jun 07

Pen to Print Online: Creative Writing Class with Ian Ayris

Online Event

Jun 07

Pen to Print: Poetry Class with Mab Jones

Jun 07

Pen to Print Online: Poetry Class with Mab Jones

Online Event

Jun 17

Pen to Print Online: Historical Adventure – Is It a Man’s Game?

Online Event

Jun 21

Pen to Print: Writing for Performance Class with Kelly Jones

Jun 21

Pen to Print Online: Writing for Performance Class with Kelly Jones

Online Event

Jun 26

Pen to Print Online: Real-Life Adventure with Explorer Dwayne Fields

Online Event

Jul 05

Pen to Print: Creative Writing Class with Ian Ayris

Jul 05

Pen to Print Online: Creative Writing Class with Ian Ayris

Online Event

We host events online, in-person at venues or hybrid. We follow the current government guidelines on scocial distancing, please check here for any further news.
If you have any questions connect with us by email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk or call 020 8227 2267.

If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

One should begin any work of fiction with the longest, most convoluted sentence imaginable, then try to beat that record.

Charles Dickens

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the readers.

Stephen King

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

Octavia E.Butler

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

Agatha Christie

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L’Amour

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

James Thurber

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

Albert Einstein

To write successfully, one requires only a sharp pencil, a piece of paper and a hot cup of tea.

Agatha Christie

Poetry is when an emotion has found it’s thought, and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

Writing lets you break boundaries because you can go anywhere you wish.
The voice in my stories is sometimes authentic, sometimes it is foreign.
Sometimes it is old. Sometimes it is new. Sometimes my writing is Muslim, other times it is Sikh and many times, it is no one’s religion because as long as I am telling the story,
I am in control.
I am whoever I want to be.

Farzana Hakim, Book Challenge Author