Category: News
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...
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,...
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...
New Writing North shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2021
We are delighted to announce that we have made the shortlist for this year’s Charity Awards, the longest-running and most...
Sky Studios and New Writing North partner to inspire the next generation of television writers
Sky Writes has been created to help diversify the pool of television writers in the UK. The programme offers an...
Digital Events: FAQs
Producing Durham Book Festival 2020 digitally has been a learning experience for all of us here at New Writing North...
Statement: We stand to denounce racism in all its forms
We stand to denounce racism in all its forms. We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East,...
New trustees join the board of New Writing North as it develops plans for a centre for writing in Newcastle
New Writing North welcomes six new board members from publishing and industry to help it move forward with plans to establish a...
An update from New Writing North
Dear friends, we trust and hope that you are keeping well during this very strange time. We wanted to update...
Coronavirus outbreak: a statement from New Writing North
We’re sorry to let you know that we have decided to cancel or postpone all of New Writing North’s face-to-face...
David Cohen Prize for Literature 2019: EDNA O’BRIEN awarded prestigious prize
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 David Cohen Prize for Literature. Unveiled on Tuesday night at...
We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work at Durham Book Festival 2019!
The festival runs between 5-13 October 2019, and features a host of prominent writers, poets and thinkers such as Colm...
