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Thursday Connectors: I Love A Love Story

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By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. It’s Farzana here, welcoming you to February’s Thursday Connectors. As ever, this month’s round-up of writing from you, about you. My page today is all about you and your perceptions of love and love stories. I'm a lover of stirring deep emotions and my writing reflects ...

Meet The Judges Of The Pen To Print Competitions

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Meet the Judges for the 2024/25 Poetry Competition Deadline to enter: 21 March 2025 Enter Here: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/competitions/ Ange Wilson, (writes as A J Wilson), was born in rural North Wales and has lived there for most of her life, she wrote her first poem, at the age of 9 years but it ...

Thursday Connectors: Hijab Misunderstandings

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By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. Happy New Year, from me, Farzana, your host of Thursday Connectors. I hope you had a great holiday and are feeling happy and healthy as we begin 2025. 2024 ended with me feeling hopeful that I had made a small but positive contribution in the local community ...

Thursday Connectors: Festive Greetings

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By Farzana Hakim Hi all, it's Farzana, your host for Thursday Connectors here. Join me in this fun-loving end-of-year special, where we are talking festivities, and all the traditions (and quirkiness) which we sometimes unknowingly adopt. I, for one, have never had an Eid which hasn’t ended in great rolling-on-the-floor laughter, at ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Nostalgia

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By Eithne Cullen Welcome to December’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. It’s that time of the year when we rush home to avoid the dark, think about Christmas festivities and, as the month closes, have some nostalgia for the year that’s coming to an end. My page today reflects quite a lot of these ...

Thursday Connectors: Personal Circumstance And Difference

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By Farzana Hakim Hi all, it's Farzana, your host of Thursday Connectors. Welcome to my November page, a fantastic Showcase linked to what’s important to you and those around you. Continuing with our theme of 'Difference,' I'm connecting with three writers who  offer different perspectives around their  life experiences; all of which ...

Thursday Connectors: Changes In Life

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By Farzana Hakim Hi all, it's Farzana here, your host for Thursday Connectors. Welcome back after a long summer break. A much-needed summer break indeed! For me, this summer was a summer of some changes as, after persistent pestering and lots of moaning and sweet coercing, my husband, who's always been terrified ...

Thursday Connectors: South Asian Heritage Month

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By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. Farzana, your host, is here to introduce a celebratory special edition. Our Thursday Connectors are all about South Asian Heritage this time, to coincide with one of my favourite and busiest months of the year. For the past few years, I’ve been working tirelessly to bring stories ...

Monday Moments: Chance And Change

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Introduced By Amber Hall This month, our new theme is ‘Change’, and I’ve been thinking about the interconnectedness of chance and change. So much of life hinges on a moment. Our trajectories are shaped by nanoseconds we might not even notice. These ‘sliding door moments,’ as they’re known, can alter our ...