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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Hope

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen My mother was always using sayings and proverbs and many of them often pop into my mind. With our theme of 'Hope' coming into the magazine, I remembered her saying: “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Interestingly enough, it’s a line that comes up in our piece ...

Monday Moments: November Is Diabetes Awareness Month

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King It’s November already and in this season of Write On! Extra we’re focusing on important events in each month. For me, November is the month to raise awareness about Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is a complex and multifaceted condition, which is difficult to understand considering its invisibility and ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Crossing The Veil

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen This week our theme is Crossing The Veil: Exploring our fascination with the supernatural. October 31st is the Eve of the feast of All Saints (All Hallows in old-fashioned words so All Hallow’s Eve becomes Halloween), thinking about death, Heaven and Hell; and celebrating all the good people who ...

Monday Moments: Crossing The Veil

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King Boo! Welcome to a particularly scary Monday edition of Write On! Extra, as we lead up to Halloween. Although, haven’t we had enough to be frightened of already this year? Still, we’re taking a detour from horrifying reality and moving towards the spooky fascination we have with the ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Looking Between The Lines

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Refocusing On How We See Things During Black History Month This week’s theme has a very close link to October, celebrating Black History Month. Conceived to challenge racism and educate everybody about British history not taught in school, it has been celebrated nationwide for more than 30 years – ...

Monday Moments: Looking Between The Lines

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King This week, we’re ‘Looking Between The Lines’ and refocusing on how we view history. One thing I learnt in my History GCSE class was that every historical source is biased; it is always told from a certain point of view, always emphasising some statistics or elements of ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Recipes For Success

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Our theme this week is 'Recipes For Success.' Here at Pen to Print, when we began thinking about recipes for success, we had writing very much on our minds. My page today features pieces from Juneha Chowdhury, one of the Book Challenge winners and Ian Ayris who has been ...

Monday Moments: Recipes For Success

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King I love cooking; seeing the ways all the ingredients work together to create a dish that I know all the components of. I like adding in the spices, different vegetables, and seeing an explosion of colour bubble over. I also like a good plan, a recipe to ensure ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Fall Into Fall

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Our pages this week have a focus on the changing season, as we move from summer, into what the Americans call 'Fall,' or autumn to us. Emmanuel Oreyeni, out talented artist at Pen to Print, has created this image of Fall; I love how he has captured the colours ...

Monday Moments: Falling Into Fall

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King This week, we’re 'Falling Into Fall'; the temperature has dropped dramatically, leaves are falling from the trees, sunshine has been replaced with rain giving way to heavy-clouded skies and, to round it all off, I fell over! I find our use of the word 'fall' interesting. We ‘fall’ ...