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Friday Features: Reading Is Good For You

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By Claire Buss Curling up with a good book is something I love to do and the more I think about it, the more I feel that reading must be good for you. So, here are my top ten reasons why you should be reading: Reading is stimulating! Remember the last ...

Friday Features: Writers + Money

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By Palak Tewary Writing is a creative endeavour. To sustain it, there is a need for writers to be financially savvy and have knowledge around the economics of writing. Writers don’t need to enjoy it, nor do they need to be good at it – there are experts for that – ...

Friday Features: A Poetry Special

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This week we are celebrating some of the wonderful poets and poetry to have come out of Pen to Print's Advanced Poetry Workshop led by Anna Robinson. This is a free course for people who have been writing poetry for a while and are ready for a deeper journey. Find ...

Friday Features: Comic Book Workshop

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By Wallis Eates Running the Comic Writing Workshop course for Pen to Print this year was an utter delight. With regular and drop-in participants logging in from around the world, and the first time I’d delivered an entire course online, it was adventure all the way! The course consisted of ten sessions ...

Friday Features: Free Writing And Grief

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By Charlotte Baker “So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon Free writing is an established prewriting technique that is known to evoke ‘raw’, often deemed unusable, material. However, only after ten years of being an author and experiencing grief myself, did I start to unlock ...

Writer Of The Month: Jenny Grant

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Introduced by Mary Walsh Jenny Grant; September 1966 - May 2021 I am both honoured and deeply saddened to introduce Jenny Grant as our writer of the month. Jenny passed away suddenly in May, leaving her husband Jon and her daughter Amber. Jenny was a great friend to me and to all at ...

Friday Features: Documenting My Mental Health

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By Eché Egbuonu If we were given yearbooks after finishing secondary school, I doubt that I would have received many votes for the 'most likely to get sectioned.' Getting sectioned means being admitted to a mental health hospital, regardless of whether or not you agree to it. During the summer of 2015, ...