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

Aug 18

Pen to Print: Master of All Trades – Jack of None Workshop

Aug 25

Pen to Print: Master of All Trades – Jack of None Workshop

Sep 01

Pen to Print: Master of All Trades – Jack of None Workshop

Sep 03

Pen to Print: Poetry Classes

Sep 05

ReadFest: A Conversation with Luan Goldie and Kia Abdullah

Sep 06

ReadFest: Overland By Bus London to Bombay 1966

Sep 06

ReadFest: Behind the Scenes with Jenny Brown

Sep 07

Pen to Print: Playwriting Classes

Sep 08

ReadFest: Master of All Trades – Jack of None Showcase

Sep 10

ReadFest: Editor’s Introduction to Write On! Magazine

N.B. Due to the pandemic most of our events and classes are online. You can still enjoy our programme by booking places on Eventbrite. If you would like to access an online event, class, or workshop you will need to register for an Eventbrite Account.

As of April 2022 we will be starting to re-introduce venue (in-person) events, whilst adhering to any social distancing guidelines that may be in place, 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