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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Plastic Free Month

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to July’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. This month, I’m using my page to share thoughts about our relationship with plastic: July is plastic free month. If, like me, you’re shocked to see images of plastic in our oceans and on our beaches, you’ll be happy to pause and ...

Reshaping The Windrush Narrative

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Iesha Denize This week at Pen to Print and Write On! we acknowledge Windrush Day in the context of our theme, 'Transformation'. I am sharing a series of articles that explore a Windrush perspective on personal transformation, in essence, a ‘poetic’ Windrush focus on the release and a reshaping of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Transformation

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to my page for June. I’d like to start with a quotation from John Steinbeck, one of my favourite writers: In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. I think it captures the flavour of the month well. We’re ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Share A Story

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen ‘Everyone has a story to tell’ is at the very heart of Pen to Print’s work. We invite people to make stories and tell stories and give voice to so many storytellers through Write On! magazine. May is National Share A Story Month, created to celebrate storytelling and how ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Spring Gardening

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Welcome to Thoughtful Tuesday’s April page. Spring has been creeping up on us, filling us with hope and a sense of fun, leading to a bright summer. The theme for the current magazine is growth, which makes us think of transformation. So it’s a great coincidence that April ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: International Women’s Day

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen I’m delighted to introduce  this page to you   this month, as March is the month that’s associated with women’s empowerment and International Women’s Day (IWD). I have fond memories of International Women’s Day from the time when I worked in a girls’ school.  We always did a lot ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Flash Fiction

Thoughtful Tuesday
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 ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Resolutions

Thoughtful Tuesday
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 ...

Monday Moments: Marching Ever Onwards

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King January is the month of resetting: resolutions, starting a new year, a new you, a new future. Yet it’s never made much sense to me, because the calendar year is an external construct. You can’t reset in any literal way, and I’ve never been able to keep ...

Monday Moments: Finding Your Balance

Monday Moments, News
While the Write On! team take a well-deserved festive break, we will still be sharing every day with pages from issue 6 of the magazine and some special Christmas and New Year messages just for you! Today's page is Monday Moments: Finding Our Balance Read the rest of Issue 6 of Write ...