Northern Writers' Awards
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The Wives of Halcyon: Interview with Eirinie Lapidaki
15 March 2024 by
The Wives of Halcyon is the powerful debut novel about coercive control, motherhood and extraordinary women, from Northern Writers’ Award-winner...
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Lockhaugh Farm: Fiction Writing Retreat 2023
29 November 2023 by
Bridget Hamilton, 2023 Northern Writers' Award winner, recounts her writing retreat at Lockhaugh Farm that was included as part of her prize.
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Lockhaugh Farm: Poetry Writing Retreat 2023
13 November 2023 by
2023 Northern Writers' Award winner Jane Thomas describes her experience on the writing retreat at Lockhaugh Farm that was included as part of her prize.
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Celebrating Northern Screen Talent
02 October 2023 by
NWN Chief Exec Claire Malcolm feeds back on our special Writing for TV awards event, and celebrates the exciting work we're developing to support screenwriting in the North.
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The Bay: Interview with Julia Rampen
24 August 2023 by
Julia Rampen’s novel The Bay was published by Saraband on 10 August 2023, after winning the NorthBound Book Award in...
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Khatijah Balu on winning the TLC Free Reads Award 2022
20 July 2023 by
Khatijah Balu, winner of the 2022 TLC Free Reads Award, writes about her experience, from entering the award all the...
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Northern Writers’ Awards Ceremony 2022
Watch some of the highlights of this year's Northern Writers' Awards, which celebrated a showcase of some of the fantastic writers who have emerged from the awards throughout the years.
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Northern Writers’ Awards: Digital Roadshows 2022
Each year we host a series of free Roadshow events, with expert panels offering advice for those hoping to enter...
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Notes from a Mentorship
03 March 2022 by
Amy Stewart won the Word Factory Apprentice Award 2021 as part of the Northern Writers’ Awards. In this blog, Amy...
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My Publication Story
13 January 2021 by
Winning a Northern Writers’ Award has changed my writing life. As a published poet, I didn’t have a lot of...
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Ciah White on winning a Northern Writers’ Award
30 July 2019 by
Writing is something I’ve always done. However, poetry was something I saw as almost pretentious; perhaps because back then I...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: The Sid Chaplin Award
17 May 2019 by
In the early months of 1941 – the darkest time of the Second World War – a young pitman took...
