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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Coming Together

Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen The theme for this week’s Extra pages is We Need You! and it’s all about coming together.   There’s no better time to reflect on the ways people are getting together to make the best use of our time in isolation or lock-down. All kinds of organisations are offering daily ...

Monday Memoirs: We Need You

Monday Moments
Introduction by Holly King It’s week two of Write On! Extra and seven seasons of Netflix shows since we went into isolation. While I’m breaking up my days by testing out video chat apps with friends and sitting by my patio doors to see if the neighbour’s cat will waltz on by, I ...

Time To Connect with Luan Goldie

News, WriteOn Interviews
Pen to Print alumni, YA author and teacher Rebecca Seaton interviews Luan Goldie, Costa Award-winning short story writer and author of HarperCollins’ summer bestseller, Nightingale Point. (c) Jimmy Lee Photography Two primary school teachers meet on a windy evening in east London… it could be the start of a great thriller. Or maybe the opening of Luan Goldie’s novel, ...

Monday Memoirs: Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style

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Saturday Morning Shopping 1960s style by Jean Fullerton Born a decade after WW2 ended, I’m a baby boomer and as such I was part of the last generation who remember the close-knit East Enders families that lived cheek by jowl in the cobbled streets clustered around the London Docks.   At that time, life had a rhythm of work and play that had gone on for generations. Men worked and women looked ...

Monday Memoirs: The Blackouts That Echo Today

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The Blackouts That Echo Today by Amanda King I grew up in the 1970s, a decade of strikes, three-day weeks, blackouts and piles of rotting rubbish on the streets. There was so much more, of course, the long hot summer of ’76 which seemingly went on forever, decimalisation, Space Hoppers, microwave ...

Saturday Spotlight: Latest Book Releases

News, Saturday Spotlight
Introduced by Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  The printing press may be on hiatus but that doesn't mean writers stop writing or readers stop reading. Digital and audio downloads are growing ever more popular as an insatiable global appetite for a good story manifests itself. At Write On! and Pen ...

Friday Features: The Only Garden I Can Relax In

News, WriteOn Features
Introduced by Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  Friday Features has been running on the Write On! and Pen to Print website for almost a year and it has been wonderful reading all the different submissions. We've had features with writing advice from writers at all different stages of their writing ...

Thursday Connectors: From Dagenham to the Bahamas

News, Thursday Connectors
by Farzana Hakim  Hi all! I’m checking in from my home in Dagenham because that's where I’m doing the lockdown, with my three kids and husband. No other place for it really; our safe haven, within the blossoming, suburbs of Greater London. And to let you all in on a secret, I’m trying my absolute best to connect with you on this nothing out of the ordinary grey sky day, with my nose and mouth covered with a flowery, pink, tasseled bandana. ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Spring

News, Thoughtful Tuesday
by Eithne Cullen "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”  Pablo Neruda   Tuesday’s page is all about finding inspiration in words and thoughts and mindfulness. This weeks’ Write On! Extra theme is  From Head in the Clouds to Feet on the Ground, so to kick-start this very first Thoughtful Tuesday, I am using the reality of Spring and the new life ...

Monday Memoirs: A Post-War London Childhood

Monday Moments
Introduced by Holly King We kick off our first Write On! Extra ‘Monday Memoirs’ with a piece by Josephine Gee, reminiscing on her post-war Childhood in London and centring around the theme of food. Topical, considering today people are panic-buying and adjusting to not having access to the variety of food types we are used to; Josephine details the far more constraining and laborious tasks involved in buying and preparing ...