Pens of the Earth

Our website is now hosted by Eco Web Hosting, who use green energy for their web servers and plant a tree every month for us!

Thank you to everyone who entered our Save Our Seas competition on social media. The winner was Annie Kirby!

To celebrate our collaboration with Kings Youth Theatre and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust we are holding a competition to win two tickets for this wonderful showcase on Fri 3rd June!

To enter, do one or more of the following:

1. Like our page on Facebook and share this post.
2. Follow our account on Twitter (@EarthPens) and retweet this post.
3. Add a comment on the Facebook/Twitter post with your inspirational ideas about ways to ‘Save our Seas’. Please make sure you comment on the original post, not a shared copy!

Each of these counts as one entry – the more you do, the more chance you have of winning!

Also, don’t forget to like the Kings Theatre Konnect Facebook page.

If you’re not on Facebook or Twitter you can also enter by emailing us your ‘Save our Seas’ ideas.

All suitable ‘Save our Seas’ ideas will be published on our inspiration pages to help provide creative stimulus for this year’s submission theme, and may also be featured on Facebook and Twitter. We will credit you!

Terms and Conditions:

• Deadline: Midnight, Wednesday 18th May 2022.
• One prize, to be chosen at random from all entries received.
• Winner announced by 5pm on Thursday, 19th May.
• Tickets to be collected on Fri 3rd June from the King’s Theatre box office.
• By entering this competition you agree we can publish your name and ideas on our website and social media.

So, that’s it for another year!

Thanks to everyone who contributed a story, poem or some environmental content. Thanks also to our editors, our comms team, and everyone who helped behind the scenes.

And finally, thanks to everyone who read work on the Pens of the Earth website. If you haven’t caught up with everything yet, you can read all eighteen of the pieces we published here.

(If you’re interested in how Pens of the Earth came about, you can read Helen’s article, published on ‘Writing Literary Portsmouth’, here.)

Our run of stories, poems and non-fiction on the topic ‘Small Differences Add Up’ begins today! You can start reading here, and be sure to check back in the following days and weeks for more work.

The video from our online ‘Streets For People’ workshop is now available to watch here.

Our charity donations for Wilder Portsmouth have reached £130. A huge thanks to everyone who has dipped into their pocket. The seeds of change are being planted!

Our writing workshop on 3rd August went very well. Thanks to all who were there for your enthusiasm and creative responses. We hope to see lots of submissions as a result. And if you weren’t able to make it, please send us your work anyway!

Our ‘Streets for People’ workshop, which had to be cancelled in 2020 due to you-know-what, is now going ahead on 3rd August! It’s been updated to reflect our new theme. You can read about it and book tickets here.

After a long delay caused by you-know-what, we are now fundraising for Wilder Portsmouth. If you can spare a few quid to help them in their mission to make Portsmouth more green, it would be much appreciated! Donate here.