Gloria Maloney – Pen To Print

Showcase: Salad Days + Destination + For Grannie + The Moon And Me

01 May 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Lucy Kaufman Welcome to the first of my five showcases for May, brought to you every Wednesday via Write On! Extra. I’m Lucy Kaufman, Screenwriting and Playwriting tutor for Pen to Print, and am delighted to be showcasing the work of an array of exciting writers this month. Our current ...

Showcase: Judas Iscariot + Anxious Mind + Vitalite Nights + Heckler + Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

03 April 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Hannah Rooney Welcome to the first Showcase of April. I’m Hannah and I’m delighted to introduce you to some incredible pieces this month. April ushers in a time of renewal that works in great harmony with our new Write On! theme: ‘Overcoming’. Overcoming is intrinsically universal, a challenge most of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Realities And Perspectives

14 November 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to this Thoughtful Tuesday page, where I’m taking a look into the realities and perspectives of November days and cold winter nights. This month, I have some wintry pieces for you: from thoughts on curling up with a good book on a cold night, through poems to ...

Thursday Connectors: Spring Time Writing – Flora And Fauna

20 April 2023 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hi, all. Welcome to a colourful Thursday Connectors, with me your host, Farzana. I say colourful, because the colour palette of Spring is here and seeing it everywhere I look gives me joy. With this in mind, I bring to you a fitting array of prose to celebrate ...

Showcase: Penguin + Truth + Two Stews Apart + I Am Eve + Sunset On Sheringham Beach

19 April 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Claire Buckle Welcome to my third April Showcase. Last week, I looked at how love in its various forms can be contradictory. This week, I thought it’d be interesting to examine memory. Recently, I attended an online writing workshop where participants had eight minutes to write about memory. Studies have shown ...

Showcase: House + I Am Back Home + The Haunted House + Owl Flight

26 October 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Diya Padiyar Welcome to my final Showcase page. And I still have so much more to say about the theme of home! I'd like to begin by exploring homes in a context I've always been curious about: abandoned houses. Our ancestral home, where my father grew up, is right across the ...

Showcase: Tulips + Distraction Sonnet + Few Steps Away From Nature

20 July 2022 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Charlotte Zisimides Hello and welcome to my third piece for this month’s Showcase. I came by Pen to Print through a competition called ‘What If YOU Spoke?’. I entered with a poem called Loss Of Limb, which was a runner-up in the nature competition, judged by Zakiya Mckenzie. Today, I’m delighted ...

Write On! Features: My Journey Into Writing Creative Prose And Poetry by Gloria Maloney

15 April 2022 News, WriteOn Features

By Gloria Maloney My life experiences have brought me to where I am today, writing creative prose and poetry. As a baby in 1961, I was left in an orphanage, and at the age of two a loving family took me in. When I was six years old, they officially adopted me. To this ...

Write On! Interviews: Writer Gloria Maloney

16 January 2022 News, WriteOn Interviews

Write On! interviews writer Gloria Maloney. Gloria won the Pen to Print Poetry Competition 2021 with her poem Steam Train and has since submitted further poetry for publication. WO: How would you describe your writing to someone new to it? GM: I use descriptive language involving the five senses to draw the reader ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Nonsense Poetry

11 January 2022 Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to the first ‘Thoughtful Tuesday’ page of 2022. It’s hard to believe it’s almost two years since we started the Extra pages to keep us going through what we thought might be a few weeks of lockdown. Yet here we still are, and we’re off to a ...

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