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February 2025

LGBT+ History Month

In this edition:
Writers’ Retreat
LGBT+ Open Mic
8 Weeks Until Competitions Close

January 2025

Happy New Year!

In this edition:
The Book Challenge Shortlist Selected
Opportunities To Work With Us
Latest Competitions

December 2024

Audio Month

In this edition:
Audio Drama Workshop
Cosy Crime Writing Workshops
Live Editing Workshop

November 2024

Sci-Fi Fantasy Month

In this edition:
International Men’s Day
Sci-Fi Fantasy Workshop
Latest Competitions

October 2024

Black History Month 2024 Special

In this edition:
Pen to Print 10th Anniversary
Competitions Now Open
Black History Month

September 2024

ReadFest 2024 Special

In this edition:
Issue 22 Write On! Magazine
Classes Start on 14 September
The Book Challenge is Closing!

August 2024

ReadFest 2024 is Coming

In this edition:
Pen to Print Awards Winners Announced!
Looking Forward to ReadFest 2024
Regular Classes starting on 14 September

July 2024

Pen to Print Awards Evening: A Black starry Background with a Golden trophy.

July 2024

In this edition:
The Pen to Pen to Print Awards
Romance Month
Creative Practice Grants

June 2024

June Newsletter showing a pile of books/

June 2024

In this edition:
A Royal Invitation
Write On!’s 5th Anniversary Issue
Women’s Museum Event

May 2024

Pen to Print Crime Month - A Man in a a tench Coat and hat holds a magnifying glass and is looking at footprints on the wooden floor.

Crime Month 2024

In this edition:
Pen to Print at Hay Festival
London Library – Workshops
Writing Dark Romance

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
Pen to Print Writer