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9th March 2026
Ultimately it is down to you to move your own creative mountain. In this series I will be exploring what it’s like to weather the storms of the...
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Identifying Your Audience
The most important task an artist or illustrator has is to create. Forging a career, however, does require you to sell work and identifying an audience really is key to this. This selection of articles concentrates on how to think about who your work is aimed at and how you can make them aware of it.
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15th December 2025
Though I fiercely believed in my manuscript The Sun-Room, I knew that agents and publishers were unlikely to take a risk on a 10,000 word prose-...
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2nd December 2025
We’ve all read sentences that made us pause; not because the words moved us profoundly, but because they didn’t sit right. Recently, I read a...
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13th January 2025
Our 2025 Yearbooks are here, and to mark the 118th edition of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the 21st anniversary edition of...
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26th September 2023
In keeping with Pen to Print’s vision that everybody should have the chance to tell their story and inspire potential in others, we welcome new...
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24th May 2023
Opening up to the world, putting words onto paper is hard. I spent half my life with no qualifications – unsure whether I could actually write. In...