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Showcase: The German Heiress + The Good Old Days

Hello, readers. It’s the middle of the week and there’s the weekend to look forward to, although I find that, during lockdown and with every day being covered by a nondescript grey sky drizzling with fine rain for hours on end, the days themselves seem to blend together. We seem to ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Flash Fiction

By Eithne Cullen This week’s Thoughtful Tuesday is all about stories. We writers tell them, shape them, edit them and love them. We connect with readers who love stories in all shapes and sizes. To begin, this week, I asked the Pen to Print writers whether any of them have Flash pieces ...

The Pen to Print Competitions for 2021 Are Now Open!

Competitions are now open to new entries. Details of all of the Pen to Print competitions, how to enter and T&Cs can be found here on our website, go to pentoprint.org/competitions. Do you fancy having a go at writing a novel? Do you prefer keeping it brief and write short stories? Are you ...

The Pen to Print Awards 2020 – Competition Results

By Lena Smith, Library Project Manager - London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. The Pen to Print Awards are our annual celebration of Pen to Print’s work where we announce the winners of our competitions. The Pen to Print Awards 2020, were postponed from June 2020 and we were pleased to ...

Writer Of The Month: Julie Dexter

By Patsy Middleton Our writer of the month is poet Julie Dexter. Julie trained as a dancer at a ballet school in Chester, studying many forms of dance as well as choreography. Julie says: "I think choreography and composing have a similarity, as you have to select carefully what you will leave out, ...

Write On! 7 – Out Today

Pen to Print Storytellers – A Gift Of Hope, From East London To The World Borne in Barking and Dagenham, Write On! magazine, in print and online, was launched April 2019.  Out today, Write On! 7, the fourth magazine to be published during the pandemic, is the culmination of our ‘Hope’ theme, ...
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Showcase: Obit. + Tuesday

This week, I am very excited to introduce you to an extraordinary talent—so much so, that I am going to spoil you with not one of his poems, but two! Gboyega Odubanjo is a poet from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. He is a writer in residence at Rabbits ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Resolutions

By Eithne Cullen Happy New Year! We ended 2020 on the theme of Hope and carry on our new hopes into 2021. I thought I’d start the year off thinking about the way we all make resolutions as one year ends and the next begins. Sometimes these resolutions are made as the ...
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Showcase: Resilience + Airport

Hello, everyone! I hope you are all coping well given the circumstances. If it makes you feel any better, we are back in lockdown across the Atlantic in Colombia, as well. You'd think with all this time at home I'd have made a bigger dent in my TBR (to be read) ...