Our E-Newsletter
Pen to Print sends out regular emails to keep friends up to date with all the fun things we do.
We have an ongoing programme of free creative writing classes, workshops, author and arts events and we hold our annual literary festival ReadFest every September.
If you would like to receive regular updates please do sign up below.
October 2022
Pen to Print’s October 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Write On! featuring Louis De Bernières
Black History Month
New Competitions
September 2022
Pen to Print’s September 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
ReadFest 2022 Starts TODAY
Highlights for September
Last chance to enter The Book Challenge!
August 2022
Pen to Print’s August 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
ReadFest 2022 Programme Announced!
Pen to Print Competitions Update
Write On! Magazine, Extra and Audio podcast
July 2022
Pen to Print’s July 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Pen to Print Winners
Trewern/Hay Writers Retreat
Summer Programme
May 2022
Pen to Print’s May 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Pen to Print Awards
Queens, Kings & Jubilees – What’s It All About?
Synopsis and Submission Workshops
Write On! Together Launched
April 2022
Pen to Print’s April 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
May is Pen to Print Crime Month
Writing Romantic Subplots in Horror and Crime
Queens, Kings & Jubilees – What’s It All About?
Speech & Drama Festival Winners
March 2022
Pen to Print’s March 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Happy Easter!
Competitions Closing on 25 March
Dagenham’s Children’s Library Relaunch
Fiction for Younger Readers with Steve Cole
February 2022
Pen to Print’s February 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Women’s Empowerment Month
Jaspreet Kaur with Brown Girl Like Me
Real Life Adventure with Pip Stewart
Closing Competitions Soon!
January 2022
Pen to Print’s January 2022 Newsletter
In this edition:
Happy New Year!
Speech & Drama Festival Entry Date Extended
What’s New in 2022.
December 2021
Pen to Print’s December 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
Christmas Greetings
Write With Wonder Competition
New Workshops
November 2021
Pen to Print’s November 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Month
A Gentleman’s Evening of Poetry
Short Story Workshop
Writer’s Introduction to the Publishing World with Scott Pack
October 2021
Pen to Print’s October 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
October Highlights
Black History Month
New Workshops
ReadFest 2021
In this edition:
Online ReadFest 2021 Highlights
Pen to Print Competitions Opening in September
August 2021
Pen to Print’s August 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
Online ReadFest 2021
New Class Programme
LBBD Libraries Now Fully Open
ECS: Empower Magazine
June 2021
Pen to Print’s June 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
The Digital Storytelling Trail
New Book Launches
Write On ! Issue 9
ReadFest Teasers
Amazing Writers Workshops
May 2021
Pen to Print’s Crime Month Newsletter
In this edition:
Crime Month
Write On! Introduction Workshops
Writer Mentoring with All Stories
March 2021
Pen to Print’s March 2021 Newsletter
In this edition:
Women’s Empowerment Month
Notes from Dad’s Room Play Reading
Audio Play Competition
Christmas 2020
Pen to Print’s Christmas 2020 Newsletter
In this edition:
Write On! & Pen to Print Team’s Christmas Gift
Updates on the New Year’s Programme
Pen to Print 2020 Awards
Christmas Greentings
September 2020
Pen to Print’s September 2020 Newsletter
In this edition:
Black History Month 2020
Launching The Cursed Shore
Virtual Book Club
The Matchgirls Memorial Competition
July 2020
Pen to Print’s July 2020 Newsletter
In this edition:
Writing in the Time of Covid-19
Write On! Extra
Digital ReadFest 2020
New Course Programme Released
Competition Deadlines Looming
February 2020
Pen to Print’s February 2020 Newsletter
In this edition:
Kimberley Chambers Event Update
Half-term Tangle Tales Theatre Experiance
ReadFest 2020 Announcements
Audible Workshops Starting
Competition Deadlines Looming
December 2019
Pen to Print’s December 2019 Newsletter
In this edition:
Festive Greentings
Write On! Issue 3 is out now!
New Book Launches for 2020
October 2019
Pen to Print’s October 2019 Newsletter
In this edition:
Hightlights of ReadFest 2019
Write On! Magazine Issue 2 is out
Exciting October Events
and
Black History Month Events
Summer 2019
Pen to Print’s Summer 2019 Newsletter
In this edition:
The Pen to Print Brand Refresh
ReadFest 2019 Programme
Pen to Plate
Pen to Print International Storytelling 2019/20 Programme
July 2019
Pen to Print’s July 2019 Newsletter
In this edition:
Pen to Print Competition Winners 2018/19 Announced
Write On! Magazine Launched
New International Storytelling Year Starts
June 2019
Pen to Print’s June 2019 Newsletter
Crime Month
Pen to Print Awards
Playwriting Final
Postcards Short Play Event
Spring 2019
Pen to Print’s Spring 2019 Newsletter
Women’s Empowerment Month
Looking forward to Crime Month
and Spring Events
March 2019
Pen to Print’s March 2019 Newsletter
- Book Launch: The Barking Foxes Poetry Anthology, 11 April.
- Claire Buss Book Surgery 0n Social Media, 16 April
- Katie Ginger with The Little Theatre on the Seafront, 26 April
- Sweethearts of Ilford Lane with Farzana Hakim, 30 April
- Michael Feld Cretive Writing Competition for Young People
February 2019
Pen to Print’s February 2019 Newsletter
- New York Times bestselling author Kate Moore with Radium Girls on 8 March
- Workshop on how to pass the 11+ exams and choose a Secondary school for your child on 13 March
- Najla Love Stories with Ola Awonubi 14 March
- Beautifully Flawed with Arinola Araba 20 March
With reports on Love in the Library and Comic Book Workshops held in February.
January 2019
Pen to Print’s January 2019 Newsletter
Including details of Eithne Cullen’s book launch of ‘Never Not in my Thoughts’ and Karl Nova’s trips to Schools in Barking and Dagenham.
