Read Regional is a campaign to promote published books by North East writers. The 2010 Read Regional campaign will be launched at the Hexham Book Festival in May 2010 and runs until the end of October. The campaign will include author promotions, reading stunts across the North East region, library promotions and stock purchases by participating libraries, book group events and a major press promotion, triggered by a special public launch event. The event ran successfully last year – see www.readregional.com for more information.

Read Regional aims to support the promotion of work by writers who live and work in the North East; if they are also published by regional independent presses, that’s a bonus too. We will aim to select a line-up of books which are diverse in nature and which will offer project partners lots of potential promotion opportunities. Last year the campaign focused on four fiction titles – this year we would like to consider poetry titles too.

Criteria for selection
• The book must be written by a writer who currently lives and works in the north east of England (Teesside to Berwick upon Tweed)
• The author must be available to participate in at least 10 events across the North East between May and October 2010
• Books must have been published between January 2009 and April 2010 in paperback

To enter
Please send the following if you would like your book to be considered for the campaign:
1. A copy of the book
2. Biog of the writer and information on the publisher and where the book is currently available to buy
3. A summary of past reviews and press coverage and marketing activity for older books, or information on forward marketing plans for new titles
Please send this information to New Writing North by Monday 4 January 2010. If you have any questions about eligibility, please email catriona@newwritingnorth.com.

Catriona Taylor
Read Regional Programme Manager
New Writing North
Holy Jesus Hospital
City Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 2AS

Please do not try to hand deliver materials as our building is not always open to the public and there is no public letterbox

Read Regional is core funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England.