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Events, Classes and Workshops.

To enjoy our free programme, places at our events, classes and workshops must be booked.
(Unless it is a specified drop-in session.)
You will be directed to the Eventbrite platform to reserve your place.
To join online events you will need to sign up for a free Eventbrite Account.
Please read the booking details carefully and any ‘Additional Information’ in your confirmation emails.
To help you get the best experience you can also see our How to Guide for accessing online events.
We look forward to seeing you soon!

For all enquiries E: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk T: 020 8227 2267

Jan 22
Pen to Print: Writing Historical Fiction Workshop with Ola Awonubi
Barking Learning Centre – Barking Library, Barking, IG11 7NB
Jan 29
Pen to Print: I Wish I’d Asked My Granny More with Jean Fullerton
Valence Local Studies and Archive Centre – Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, RM8 3HT
Jan 29
Pen to Print: Exploring Historical Fiction & Dagenham’s Unique Stories
Valence Local Studies and Archive Centre – Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, RM8 3HT
Jan 31
Pen to Print: Writers’ Group with Tavinder Kaur New
Dagenham Library – 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, RM10 9QS
Jan 31
Pen to Print: Poems & Feelings Poetry Group with Amaka Obioji
Dagenham Library – 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, RM10 9QS
Feb 07
Pen to Print: Writing for Performance Class
Barking Learning Centre – Barking Library, Barking, IG11 7NB
Feb 07
Online Pen to Print: Writing for Performance Class
Online Event
Feb 07
Pen to Print: Creative Writing Class
Barking Learning Centre – Barking Library, Barking, IG11 7NB
Feb 07
Online Pen to Print: Creative Writing Class
Online Event
Feb 07
Pen to Print: Poetry Writing Class
Barking Learning Centre – Barking Library, Barking, IG11 7NB

We host events online, in-person at venues or hybrid. We follow the current government guidelines on scocial distancing, please check here for any further news.

If you have any questions connect with us by email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk or call 020 8227 2267.

If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

One should begin any work of fiction with the longest, most convoluted sentence imaginable, then try to beat that record.

Charles Dickens

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the readers.

Stephen King

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

Octavia E.Butler

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

Agatha Christie

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L’Amour

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

James Thurber

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

Albert Einstein

To write successfully, one requires only a sharp pencil, a piece of paper and a hot cup of tea.

Robert Frost

Writing lets you break boundaries because you can go anywhere you wish. The voice in my stories is sometimes authentic, sometimes it is foreign. Sometimes it is old. Sometimes it is new. Sometimes my writing is Muslim, other times it is Sikh and many times, it is no one’s religion because as long as I am telling the story, I am in control. I am whoever I want to be.

Farzana Hakim, Book Challenge Author