Events, Classes and Workshops

N.B. Due to Government advice as of 17 March 2020 we are pausing all events and classes for 12 weeks. We hope to restart our programme later this year.

We continue to monitor the situation and will issue regular updates on our social media channels and on our website.

We apologise for any dissapointment. The Pen to Print Team wish you all well. If you have any questions connect with us by email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

Pen to Print run a series of on-going author events, classes, workshops and other activity supported by established creative writing experts, authors and artists. These events are open to everyone and are designed to inspire and encourage aspiring writers, as well as providing entertainment to the wider reading public.

Jun 17

Pen to Print: Screenwriting Workshop with Lucy Kaufman

Jun 20

Pen to Print: Playwriting Workshop with Lucy Kaufman – Advanced

Jun 27

Pen to Print: Creative Writing Workshop with Ian Ayris – Advanced

Jun 27

Pen to Print: Poetry Workshop with Anna Robinson

Jul 04

Pen to Print: Playwriting Workshop with Lucy Kaufman – Beginners

Jul 11

Pen to Print: Creative Writing Workshop with Ian Ayris – Beginners

Jul 11

Pen to Print: Poetry Workshop with Anna Robinson

Jul 18

Pen to Print: Playwriting Workshop with Lucy Kaufman – Advanced

Jul 25

Pen to Print: Creative Writing Workshop with Ian Ayris – Advanced

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