Category: News
Linda France wins National Poetry Competition
Congratulations to Linda France, whose poem, Bernard and Cerinthe, has won the National Poetry Competition. The poem was inspired by...
Three northern writers win commission to make a new piece of work for Radio 3’s The Verb
Last year Verb New Voices went looking for talented new writers from across the North, to take part in a...
People’s Play Reminder
Scriptwriters still have a few weeks left to enter The People’s Play Award 2014, which closes for entries on 7...
Chloe Daykin’s Turnip heads for Edinburgh
Writer, book artist, designer and teacher Chloe Daykin will be spending her Valentine’s Day with an ‘enormous turnip’ in Edinburgh....
Angela Readman wins 2013 Costa Short Story Award
North East story writer and poet Angela Readman has won the 2013 Costa Short Story Award with her short story,...
Tyne View back in stock
Michael Chaplin’s book Tyne View – part social history, part psycho-geography and part love letter – sold out over Christmas,...
Holocaust Memorial Day
Join New Writing North at Newcastle Central Station on the morning of Monday 27 January for a Holocaust Memorial Day...
Carolyn Jess-Cooke at The Poetry School
Carolyn Jess-Cooke, author of The Guardian Angel’s Journal and The Boy Who Could See Demons, is teaching a course for...
Mari Hannah wins Polari First Book Prize
Northumberland author Mari Hannah has won the Polari First Book Prize 2013 for her novel The Murder Wall (Pan Macmillan)....
Another chance to see Another England
Commissioned by Durham Book Festival in 2013 from writer Michael Smith and filmmaker Neil Bianco, Another England is a cycle...
Niel Bushnell takes some Northern Promise to Sweden
When New Writing North asked me if I’d like to go to the Gothenburg Book Fair my first impulse was...
Free Thinking about Another England
Michael Smith and Neil Bianco will be appearing at Sage Gateshead tomorrow Saturday 26 October at the Free Thinking Festival....
