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November 2023

An Astronuat in a SpaceSuite in space wiith planets in the background. Pen to Print Sci-Fi, Fantasy Month

November is Sci-Fi, Fantasy Month

In this edition:
Sci-Fi Events
International Men’s Day
Pen to Print Competitions

 

October 2023

October is Black History Month!

Our Passions this month:
Celebrating Black History Month
Pen to Print Competitions are now OPEN!
Our regular porgramme is underway

September 2023

Online and In person Readfest 2023 Friday 8 to Sunday 17 September. A view of the sky above the clouds

Pen to Print’s ReadFest Special

In this edition:
ReadFest 2023 Begins TODAY!
Higlights of September’s Programme
Pen to Print Competitions Opening soon!

August 2023

An Image of a mobile Phone against a cludy Sky. RedFest 2023 - Barking and Dagenham's Literary Festival Online and In-Person Events. Friday 8 September to Sunday 17 September. Discover the joy of reading through a wide range of events.

Pen to Print’s ReadFest Special

In this edition:
ReadFest 2023 is Coming
Regualr Classes
The Book Challenge Open for New Entires

July 2023

A beach with a fliptlips, beach hat , book, sunglasses and towel in a pile. Welcomw to Pen to Print Summer Newsletter.

Pen to Print’s July Newsletter

In this edition:
Pen to Print Competition Winners
Hay Festival/ Trewern Trip
Write On! Issue 17

June 2023

Partly opened Red Curtains with two retro style mics standing in front of them. Pen to Print Awards Evening

Pen to Print’s June Newsletter

In this edition:
Pen to Print Awards
The Road to Publishing
Write On! Issue 17

May 2023

A black night scene in the baackground with the just the top top of a Police Car visable, flashing its blue lights. Pen to Print Crime Month.

Pen to Print’s May Newsletter

In this edition:
Crime Month
Book Challenger Book Launch
Looking Forward to The Writers Retreat

April 2023

April 2023

Pen to Print’s April 2023 Newsletter

In this edition:
Issue 16 of Write On! Magazine
Pen to Print at Hay Festival
April Events

March 2023

Women's Empowerment Month

Pen to Print’s March 2023 Newsletter

In this edition:
Places still available for Ben Aaronovich
The Road to Publishing Workshop
Celebrating The Worlds Most Influential Female Authors

February 2023

LGBTQ+ History Month

Pen to Print’s February 2023 Newsletter

In this edition:
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Month
New Courses
Ben Aaronovich

January 2023

Happy New Year 2023

Pen to Print’s January 2023 Newsletter

In this edition:
Happy New Year!
The Road to Publishing
Pen to Print Competitions

December 2022

Merry Christmas

Pen to Print’s December 2022 Newsletter

In this edition:
Merry Christmas
Funding News
Audio 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.

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