Events, Classes and Workshops

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.

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

We always look for submissions to Write On! Magazine and Write On! Extra our online magazine. If you would like to get involved please send your Poems, Stories and Articles to pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk with Write On! Submission in the Subject Line.

Don’t forget our competitions
The Book Challenge
The Poetry and Short Story Competition
Audio Play Competition
Photography Competition
More Competitions will be coming soon! Go to pentoprint/competitions full terms and conditions.

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!

Oct 14

Pen to Print: Self-Publishing for Beginners

Oct 16

Pen to Print: Advanced Creative Writing Classes

Oct 19

Pen to Print: Small Cures – A Healing Reading with Della Hicks-Wilson

Oct 20

Pen to Print: Advanced Playwriting Classes

Oct 21

Pen to Print: Self-Publishing for Beginners

Oct 26

Pen to Print: Colonial Countryside: Exploring LBBD Manor Houses

Oct 27

Pen to Print: Creating Stories with Janette Parris

Oct 28

Pen to Print: Self-Publishing for Beginners

Nov 03

Pen to Print: Beginners Playwriting Classes

Nov 06

Pen to Print: Beginners Creative Writing Classes

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