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Showcase: Hitler’s V2 Rocket Just Missed Us (Part Two)

03 February 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

Hello, Readers. We’re shaking things up a bit here on Showcase. Dan Cross, our Associate Editor, has carried this torch since Showcase began, bringing our readers dozens of creative stories, poems and articles to enjoy. Now, each month, one of the Write On! team will edit the Showcase pages. All of ...

The Pen to Print Awards 2020 – Competition Results

02 February 2021 Blog, News

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. The Pen to Print Awards 2020, were postponed from June 2020 and we were pleased to ...

Monday Moments: Storytelling Week

01 February 2021 Monday Moments, News

Introduced by Holly King I’d like to tell you a story. The first full-time job I had was in an investment call centre. We were given two weeks of training before being let out ‘on the floor’, and even though I only spent six months there, I was given lots of ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases January

30 January 2021 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: Judge A Book By Its Cover by Carol Van Den Hende

29 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

How Authors Can Inspire Great Design By Carol Van Den Hende, MBA Why design? When we consider storytelling, we usually think of the written or spoken words that make up the tale. However, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of book covers to evoke emotion and spark interest in a story. After all, humans ...

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Showcase: Hitler’s V2 Rocket Just Missed Us (Part One)

27 January 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

After a double dose of poetry examining contemporary society last week, let's enjoy a trip back in time this week, with a story set during World War Two. Through the eyes of our author, Brian Rudge, we experience the child's perspective of what it meant to live through the Blitz: how ...

Friday Features: It Happened In Essex by Colin Payne

22 January 2021 News, WriteOn Features

By Colin Payne It’s not often that two branches of the arts get to work together on a fund-raising drive for NHS volunteers but, recently, Basildon Writers’ Group released a book to help raise much-needed funds for Basildon Hospital Radio, BHR 87.7 FM. The volunteers at the radio station had to leave ...

Write On! 7 – Out Today

22 January 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

Pen to Print Storytellers – A Gift Of Hope, From East London To The World Borne in Barking and Dagenham, Write On! magazine, in print and online, was launched April 2019. Out today, Write On! 7, the fourth magazine to be published during the pandemic, is the culmination of our ‘Hope’ theme, ...

Thursday Connectors: Hoping For A Jolly New Year

21 January 2021 News, Thursday Connectors

By Farzana Hakim A ginormous warm welcome from me, Farzana, your host, for this, the very first ‘Thursday Connectors’ of 2021. And what big hopes we have for the new year, huh? After the long lockdowns and devastations of 2020, my only wish is that we all have a healthier and ...

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Showcase: Obit. + Tuesday

20 January 2021 News, WriteOn Showcase

This week, I am very excited to introduce you to an extraordinary talent—so much so, that I am going to spoil you with not one of his poems, but two! Gboyega Odubanjo is a poet from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. He is a writer in residence at Rabbits ...

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