Events, Classes and Workshops

Events, Classes and Workshops.

To enjoy our free programme, places at our events, classes and workshops must be booked.
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!

14 February, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Join us for a free online City of Stories Home writing workshop with writer Amita Murray

CLICK TO BOOK HERE

About this event
In this online workshop you’ll have the opportunity to be creative, craft your writing, and explore the theme of home in short stories – all in a safe and friendly environment.

The workshop is for people who want to give writing a go and for those already writing. It is primarily for London residents (please see FAQs for more info on this).

You can find more information about the competition here: www.spreadtheword.org.uk/city-of-stories-home-competition and top tips on writing your story here: www.spreadtheword.org.uk/city-of-stories-home-story-writing-top-tips

Jan 20

Pen to Print: An Introduction to Audio Drama with Alternative Stories

Jan 22

Pen to Print: Advanced Creative Writing Classes

Jan 25

Pen to Print: Writing the Senses Workshop with Eithne Cullen

Jan 26

Pen to Print: Advanced Playwriting Classes

Jan 29

Pen to Print: Comic Book Workshop with Wallis Eates

Feb 01

Pen to Print: Writing the Senses Workshop with Eithne Cullen

Feb 05

Pen to Print: Beginners Creative Writing Classes

Feb 05

Pen to Print: Beginners Poetry Classes

Feb 08

Pen to Print: Writing the Senses Workshop with Eithne Cullen

Feb 09

Pen to Print: Beginners Playwriting Classes

N.B. Due to Covid-19 we have now moved all of our events and classes 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. We hope to re-start venue events as soon as possible, whilst adhering to any social distancing guidelines that are in place, please check here for any further news on when our venue events are due to recommence. The Pen to Print Team wish you all well. If you have any questions connect with us by email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

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