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The Pen to Print Awards 2021 – Competition Results

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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.  We were pleased to hold at a virtual ceremony on Thursday 29 July 2021. CLICK HERE ...

Favourite Monday Moments

Monday Moments, News
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

News, Saturday Spotlight
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

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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 ...

Showcase: Perseverance + Heritage

News, WriteOn Showcase
Pass It On This week, in my final Showcase, I explore writers who take me back to my favourite reading as a child, with what we would call 'traditional storytelling'. My first stories were Anansi stories from my parents and relatives and this helped me embrace Ruth Manning Saunders as one ...

Showcase: Jean’s Transformation + Visitor

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The Courage To Persevere And Grow Through Internal Challenges By Iesha Denize Tolerance is a very personal intimate dialogue with ourselves; navigating the landscapes of those judgements we make about others as we go through our daily lives. Like many words in our language, tolerance and judgement have been polarised and seem ...

Friday Features: Documenting My Mental Health

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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, ...

Showcase: Patient Data + Olivia’s Accident

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The Courage To Navigate Controversy   This week, I continue to showcase writer perseverance, focussing on how they translate and navigate the continually shifting landscape of our communities and societies through creative expression. Information has always been important; however, the evolution into its digital form (data), presents us with different challenges. During ...