New Writing North launch The Bee, a new showcase for working-class writers
The Bee is a new showcase for working-class writers. It includes a website, literary magazine, podcast, and an online space for professional development for working-class writers. It is editorially independent from New Writing North, and the fiction, non-fiction, interviews, photography, and commentary it publishes will both entertain, stimulate and provoke debate.
Writing is powerful. It can change the way we explore the world, understand ourselves and connect with one another. Writers craft the stories that shape us.
We bring people together through books and writing. We create opportunities for writers and we find and support talented people from all backgrounds to achieve their creative ambitions.
We build the narrative power of young people and communities throughout the North. We platform the work of those whose voices are missing from the mainstream conversation.
Jenni Fagan wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2025
Jenni Fagan was announced as the winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2025 at Northern Stage on Thursday 6 March for Ootlin, published by Hutchinson Heinemann.
Fagan was the property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen diAerent homes. Ootlin is a journey through the broken UK care system – one of displacement and exclusion. It is also testament to the nourishment of writing, asserting your presence in the world though words and becoming an artist.
Summer 2025
This summer, there are so many ways to take part in New Writing North’s programme
Find listings online: events, groups and activities and current projects.
Join a vibrant online writing community
Work with industry experts to master new skills and see how far your talent can take you
On New Writing North Academy online courses, you will explore the techniques used by leading contemporary writers, learn to critique work-in-progress, develop your own voice and hone your writing craft.
New Writing North Academy has been created in partnership with the Professional Writing Academy, the industry-leading online course provider whose digital campus is the first platform specifically designed for teaching writing.
