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Pen to Print Competitions

The Pen to Print Competitions are NOW OPEN! The Poetry Competition Opens: Monday 23 September 2024 Closes: Friday 21 March 2025, 5pm First Prize: Tablet PC Winner will be announced and receive a trophy at the Pen to Print Awards on 24 July 2025. The winning poem will be published in Pen to Print's Write ...

Pen to Print Celebrates 10 Years!

Lena, Lisa and Habib at Pen to Print would like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the recent 10-year celebration evening at Dagenham Library. It was lovely to see everyone and to celebrate ten years of creativity, curiosity and camaraderie. Pen to Print is such a wonderful ...

ReadFest 2024

Saturday 14 September to Saturday 21 September 2024 ReadFest aims to deliver a wide-ranging selection of local, national and internationally acclaimed writers especially selected to entertain and inform. Held in Barking and Dagenham Libraries each September and produced by Pen to Print, we have been celebrating readers, writers and books at ...

My Time With Pen To Print

In July we were very pleased to welcome a Work Experience student to the Pen to Print office, here are Joshua's reflections on his week with the Pen to Print team. ***** This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been with Lisa and Lena; we travelled to Trewern for Hay Festival ...

Feed Into Our New Culture & Heritage Strategy

In Barking and Dagenham we believe culture and creativity are an important part of building a strong community, and through the work we do at the Council we want to make sure all local people have chances to be creative. We want to ensure our communities here in Barking and Dagenham experience ...

Friday Feature: Creating The Basilwade Chronicles

by Dawn Knox Credit: Lucy Lawson Photography When I started writing the first chapter of The Basilwade Chronicles, I had no idea it would eventually be included in a book. It was simply a short story written to present at one of the Basildon Writers’ Group meetings, where once a month, ...

Friday Feature: Dagenham Is The Protagonist

by Elaine Spires While I was growing up, I was blissfully unaware I was doing so in a place that so much of the country would have looked down its nose at and considered ‘deprived’.  I didn’t know it was sneeringly referred to as Corned Beef City by those who thought ...

Thursday Connectors: From Dagenham to the Bahamas

by Farzana Hakim  Hi all! I’m checking in from my home in Dagenham because that's where I’m doing the lockdown, with my three kids and husband. No other place for it really; our safe haven, within the blossoming, suburbs of Greater London. And to let you all in on a secret, I’m trying my absolute best to connect with you on this nothing out of the ordinary grey sky day, with my nose and mouth covered with a flowery, pink, tasseled bandana. ...