WriteOn Showcase

7 days ago

**ReadFest 2026**Debut Writers Finding An IdentityWhen: 15 September, 5-6pmWhere: Barking Learning Centre & OnlineFREEBook Tickets: pentoprint.org/readfestDebut writers Connor Hutchinson, Kuba Shand‑Baptiste, Lisa Smith and Richard Tyrrell talk to Lucy Popescu about their debut novels and the stories that helped shape them.Connor explores masculinity and working-class communities, Lisa investigates race and class, Kuba confronts belonging and the politics of visibility, while Richard follows one man’s journey of self-discovery.Together they consider how fiction can illuminate the different nuances of identity, challenge them, and explore new possibilities. ... See MoreSee Less

Photo

View on Facebook

Pen to Print

7 days ago

Every Tuesday we will be sharing a poem from one of our wonderful Pen to Print and Write On! contributors. We hope you enjoy!**My Brain And Its Groove by Kirsty L HoodMy brain within its groove Is a rarity rarer than rare And it would, if it could,Argue it don't belong there It does as it should And refutes being typical It wages war upon itself, The magnitude is biblicalI’ve tried everything myselfContain it, Restrain it, Ignore it, Implore it,Fob it off, Close it off, Shut it up ForeverShut it out, I endeavourI do my best at conforming, I’m inevitably performing Normal life, Normal job, Same old story, same old Sob,It's no use, like a train off track My stifled brain, won’t go backLife as I must certainly improveNow I accept my brain abandoned its groove.(c) Kirsty L Hood ... See MoreSee Less

Video

View on Facebook

Pen to Print

7 days ago

Video

View on Facebook

Showcase: Being Myself + Madly In Love With Thunder Storms + Dark Clouds + Tread Gently On This Earth

Showcase: Voyage In The Dark + Half Term Reading + East End Women’s Museum

Showcase: Violet Szabo + Public Opinion Smokes Big Cigars + October + Back Home

Showcase: Take It Back + I’m The Calm One

Showcase: The Broken Cycle + Gannin’ Hyem, Mate

Showcase: Coffee, Whisky And Tea + From The Indigenous Village To The British Pavement: The Journey Of Flower-Woman + Marsha Malcolm Howard Johnson’s

Showcase: All In The Blink Of An Eye + The Thunderstorm + Grandmother

Showcase: Do You Know Your Ancestry? + No One Is Merely Shadow + Summer Of 1985

Showcase: To The Editor Who Rejected The Work Or Art + Dust In The Seams

Showcase: CanalAbility + The London Gardens Society + Marking Time