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The Book Challenge 2019 Winner Announced

Thursday 25 June 2020 was supposed to be the Pen to Print Awards ceremony, unfortunately we have had to postpone the ceremony, but this hasn't stopped us announcing the winner of The Book Challenge 2019 on Facebook. All the finalists worked on their idea for a novel with a writing professional ...

Write On! Extra Standing Together

By Cllr Saima Ashraf, Chair of the Pen to Print Advisory Panel. As chair of the Pen to Print Advisory Board it has been an honour to contribute to the work of the programme. BAME and LGBTQ+ writers, and writers from working-class backgrounds, have long been underrepresented in the publishing industry.  ...
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Showcase – Take It Back & I’m The Calm One

We are celebrating BAME writers and creatives this week on Write On! Extra, so it gives me great pleasure to bring you an extract from the recently released, highly successful Take It Back, a novel by Kia Abdullah. Take It Back has been described as one of the best thrillers of the ...
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Showcase – Displaced & The Philosopher’s Daughters

I am pleased to present two wonderful examples of fabulous prose this week in Showcase. First up, we have another of the excellent entries we received in our Flash Fiction competition a couple of months ago. Nicola Franklin's Displaced uses the 300-word limit to maximum effect, welcoming us into a warm and ...

Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020

Get Involved The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays.  Read at least six library books of your choice to collect rewards along the way – all for FREE. There’s a website to add to the fun too! Children can take part in the Challenge online at sillysquad.org.uk.    Use your library card ...

Love Letters to the World Writing Project

UPDATE 27 May 2020 Pen to Print are pleased to announce that we will be supporting Love Letters to the World for the rest of the summer for 15 weeks, in addition to the orginal 4 week project so will now run until 15 September 2020. This new online creative writing workshop ...

First Story & National Writing Day on 24 June 2020

To support National Writing Day on 24 June 2020 First Story are sharing a new video tutorials and highlighting some resources from their partners. Check out their new resources we have shared the writing tutorials on our site to see more go to our  Films and  Podcasts page Happy writing! Snap and ...