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Showcase: Water Babies + Thames + Calibrating A Diamond

27 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long For my last March showcase, I start by returning to the theme of Mothers and Women. I hope you’ve enjoyed the beautiful writing I’ve found for you in March. It’s been a powerful month of words and works and we’ve celebrated Women’s History Month, Mother’s Day and ...

Showcase: Dear Future Me + Rouhi’s Haiku + My Mother Was The Machine + Demeter’s Oasis

13 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long Hi, I’m Jilly and I’d like to welcome you to my second March Showcase. As a published poet and children’s book author, I've found courage to be a key attribute in my writing journey. With that in mind, I’d like to start with this amazing piece of ...

Showcase: You Are A Special Lady + Alice Ayres + Baby + A Place Between + Who Knows

06 March 2024 News, WriteOn Showcase

Edited by Jilly Henderson-Long It's interesting that March hails both International Women’s Day on the eighth and Mother’s Day on tenth of the month. And this, my first Showcase, is just a few days before each. Being a 21st century woman is not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but ...

Thursday Connectors: New Year New Beginnings

25 January 2024 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim Hello, Everyone. It's Farzana, your host, kicking off a new year and a new season of Thursday Connectors and I'm very excited to do this. Oh, I almost forgot to wish you all a very Happy New Year. I hope 2024 has started on a positive note for ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Beginnings And Endings

16 January 2024 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen It’s great to be starting the New Year with the theme of Beginnings And Endings, and my January page is, naturally, looking at beginnings. Some of you may know I love a quiz. There’s a round I particularly like to show off in and that’s the opening lines 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 ...

Showcase: Bookmark + A Season Of Both Night And Day + The First Signs Of Spring

05 April 2023 News, WriteOn Showcase

By Claire Buckle Hello and welcome to the first of my April Showcases, where I’ll be continuing with the Write On! theme of Contradictions. Most of my writing takes the form of short stories, mainly written for women’s magazines or small press journals. I’ve also tried my hand at flash fiction and ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Contradictions In Love

14 February 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to February’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. Here at Pen to Print, we’re thinking and writing about life’s contradictions and how they come across in our reading and our writing. In this month’s page, I’m continuing to present writing to fit that theme. I’m thinking about love and romance, too (February ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Contradictions

17 January 2023 News, Thoughtful Tuesday

By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my January 2023 ‘Thoughtful Tuesday’ page. I hope the celebrations of Christmas and the New Year have left you rested and ready for whatever the future brings. It’s a funny feeling, seeing out the old year and greeting the new. We think of the old year as ...

Monday Moments: Worlds Apart

04 July 2022 Monday Moments, News

Introduced By Holly King As Write On! Extra transitions from our theme of Mind Your Language: Words And How We Use Them to our new theme of Worlds Apart, I couldn’t help but find synchronicity within the two themes. For example, my previous Monday Moments page focused on how dialects can ...

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