Author: Laura Fraine
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How to watch our Digital Events
This year Durham Book Festival offers a hybrid programme of live and digital events. We also have a range of...
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Durham Book Festival 2021 begins
The North East’s biggest book festival is back with a bursting programme of both IN-PERSON and ONLINE events with headline...
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Programme announced for Durham Book Festival 2021
Durham Book Festival returns this October with an exciting blend of live and digital events, including headline guests Lemn Sissay,...
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Shortlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2021
The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021 (announced Friday 13 August) reveals the year’s most dazzlingly bold and forward-thinking books. The six-strong shortlist...
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Seaton Delaval Hall Writer in Residence
The National Trust in partnership with New Writing North and Northumbria University is seeking a Writer-in-Residence at Seaton Delaval Hall...
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27 writers recognised at Northern Writers’ Awards 2021
We are delighted to announce the 27 brilliant writers who have been recognised in this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards and...
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Join us as we announce Northern Writers’ Awards 2021
We’ll be announcing the winners of the Northern Writers’ Awards 2021 all week-long (5-9 July) on our social media channels....
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We’re hiring!
We’re currently recruiting three roles based in Newcastle. If you’d like to work in a small, friendly and very busy...
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Michael Sheen leads the call for better options for under-represented writers as we announce A Writing Chance
Actor Michael Sheen has called on the media industry to create options and opportunities for aspiring writers and journalists from...
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Longlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2021
The longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021 has been announced, as selected by chair of the judges, author Denise Mina; writer and poet...
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Claire Malcolm awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021
We’re delighted to share the news that Claire Malcolm, New Writing North’s founding Chief Executive, has been awarded an MBE...
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Contribute to a new collective sound poem for the beginning of the world
Imagine that we have the chance to begin again. What kind of world would you want to wake up in?...
