Submit to Write On!.

Submit to Write On!

Write On! accepts written pieces (prose, poetry, essays, opinion), illustrations and artwork. Work can be included in the quarterly print magazine or can be used for Write On! Extra or in Write On! Audio online content. If you have an idea for something to submit, you may be interested in recording it, we also accept photos, video or audio extracts or snapshot interviews online.

Visit the Write On! Editors Introduction for more information about Write On!, Write On! Extra and Write On! Audio.

Each day has a different focus which you might be interested in contributing to, see below for more details along with how to submit to Write On! Audio.

NB: The volunteer editorial team will make the final decisions on where your submission will be used, it could be used in either print, online or both. If you think your work could be included on a particular online page please make your suggestion. NB: Always separate your work out and submit as separate pieces, indicating in the title whether they fit together.

Due to the volume of submissions, pieces summitted may be held for up to six moths before we can use them. If you have any questions about retention for future use please email Write On! a t pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

Complete the Write On! submission form and email the form and your work to: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk
Use the Subject Line: Write On! Submission If files are too big to email contact Pen to Print to arrange an alternative method of file transfer.

Download the Submission Form HERE MS Word Document

Download the Submission Form HERE Editable PDF Document

Please read the Submission Terms and Conditions

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Write On! Audio, the podcast ‘For Writers Everywhere’ connects emerging and established writers to each other and to the industry. There is an opportunity to submit to our Listener Contribution Slot, as well as record your creative work and offer any tips and feature ideas you might have. (Episodes released weekly from June 2022)

NB: Files must be MP3 format and no larger that 1GB. If files are too big to email contact Pen to Print to arrange an alternative method of file transfer.

Monday Moments

Stories and experiences drawn from myriad perspectives. Fresh and engaging a real ‘magazine’ feel.
(Published – 1st Monday of the month)

Thoughtful Tuesdays

Mindfulness, inspiration, poetry, quotes and ideas shared to create leadership and hope to see us through the week. (Published – 2nd Tuesday of the month)

Write On! Showcase

The creative writing showcase includes poetry, short stories, flash fiction and book extracts. Although most will reflect the seasonal theme, some work, such as memoirs or book extracts offer a non-themed perspective. (Published – Weekly on Wednesday)

Thursday Connectors

Everyone, everywhere are having different experiences and have different ways of dealing with these strange times. This internationally ‘flavoured’ page is all about people and their own stories, connecting us with ideas and ideals reaching outwards from east London to encompass the UK and the world at large.
(Published – 3rd Thursday of the month)

Write On! Features

Essays, opinions and features. In Write On! Extra the subject matter focusses on topics that are relevant to publishing and writing arenas, but also includes wider content in order to encompass thinking and ideas relevant to our times. (Published – Weekly on Friday)

Saturday Spotlight

Spotlight offers a roundup of indie, traditional, small press releases, theater productions and podcasts, bringing readers and audiences an overview of what can be found in theaters, digitally online and on physical shelves. (Published – Last Saturday of the month)

Write On! Interviews

The Sunday profile opportunity features writers, publishers, editors agents and other creatives, along with individuals from diverse communities in a number of different occupations. (Published – Weekly on Sunday)

COVID-19 Statement
Last updated: 23.05.2022.

Pen to Print activity is now available online with some in-person events.
Please do not post or hand deliver your submissions. We currently only accept entries sent by email.

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