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Friday Features: Comic Book Workshop

By Wallis Eates Running the Comic Writing Workshop course for Pen to Print this year was an utter delight. With regular and drop-in participants logging in from around the world, and the first time I’d delivered an entire course online, it was adventure all the way! The course consisted of ten sessions ...

Favourite Monday Moments

Introduced By Holly King This Monday Moments, I'm taking a look back at what we’ve achieved in the last sixteen months. While Write On! Extra was not something any of us expected to be doing for this long, it’s been great for our community and for creatives, including me!  In a ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases July

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  At Write On! and Pen to Print, we want to help connect authors and readers, so we've created a Spotlight page every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads available. The list has been curated by Lisa Roullier and myself, based on books ...

Friday Features: Free Writing And Grief

By Charlotte Baker “So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon Free writing is an established prewriting technique that is known to evoke ‘raw’, often deemed unusable, material. However, only after ten years of being an author and experiencing grief myself, did I start to unlock ...

Writer Of The Month: Jenny Grant

Introduced by Mary Walsh Jenny Grant; September 1966 - May 2021 I am both honoured and deeply saddened to introduce Jenny Grant as our writer of the month. Jenny passed away suddenly in May, leaving her husband Jon and her daughter Amber. Jenny was a great friend to me and to all at ...

Friday Features: Documenting My Mental Health

By Eché Egbuonu If we were given yearbooks after finishing secondary school, I doubt that I would have received many votes for the 'most likely to get sectioned.' Getting sectioned means being admitted to a mental health hospital, regardless of whether or not you agree to it. During the summer of 2015, ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Plastic Free Month

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 ...

Friday Features: The Last Beacons Of Free Speech

By Chandni Maugi In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government keeps its people in chains: through distraction, leisure, and unrestricted sexual pleasure. Looking into our past, populations were controlled through fear of angry gods with signs of a solar eclipse, or flooding being presented as evidence of disfavour. Fear is ...