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March 2025

In this edition:
Women’s Empowerment Month Activity
A Conversation with Kate Potter
Competitions Closing this month

February 2025

In this edition:
LGBTQ+ Month
Go All In: The National Year of Reading 2026
A Gender Swap Visual Storytelling Workshop with Karrie Fransman

January 2026

In this edition:
Historical Month
From The Cauldron: Women’s Voices in the 21st Century competition
I Wish I’d Asked My Granny More with Jean Fullerton
Exploring Historical Fiction & Dagenham’s Unique Stories

December 2025

In this edition:
Audio Month
An Evening with Kate Potter, author of The Absolutes
Write On! Issue 27

November 2025

Sci-Fi Fantasy Month
International Men’s Day
Finding Your Voice with Jenny Mitchell

October 2025

In this edition:
Black History Month Events
An Insight Into An Anorexic Journey with Gemma Bishop
Poet’s Book of Hours with Anna Robinson

September 2025

In this edition:
ReadFest 2025 programme
2025/26 Regular Classes Launched
2025/26 Competitions Launched

August 2025

In this edition:
The Pen to Print Winners Announced
South Asian History Month
Audio Moves BoogiePod

July 2025

In this edition:
Write On! Issue 25 Out Now!
Pen to Print Awards 2025
Get That Novel out of Your Head and into a Book!

June 2025

In this edition:
June is Adventure Writing Month
Historical Adventure – Is It a Man’s Game?
Real-Life Adventure: In Conversation with Explorer Dwayne Fields

May 2025

In this edition:
Free Offer from Libaro
Magical Crime Fiction with Barbara Nadel & Tom Mead
Fundraising – Overview / Demystify the Process

April 2025

In this edition:
Issue 24 Write On! Out 16 April
Poetry Workshops
Allergy Writing & Writing Our Heritage Workshops

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.

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.