Her career took a turn into writing when she started working for children’s magazine Taptoe.

She also wrote information booklets for primary and secondary school children on various subjects.

Excerpts of her work have appeared in the literary magazines Hollands Maandblad, Maatstaf, De Tweede Ronde, Ballustrada, and Het Liegend Konijn, as well as on several websites such a Cubra, KB, and DBNL (Digital Library for Dutch Literature).

The poems she wrote in this period are printed on a banner called Stadsgedichten.

[6] Hanegraaf is involved as a volunteer at the Poeziecentrum Nederland, a study and collection centre for modern Dutch poetry.

In November 2024, Marijke Hanegraaf exhibited her series Van ons vandaan together with photographs by Ineke Janssen at the Marienburg Library in Nijmegen.