Northern Writers’ Awards Ceremony 2025

Join us online to watch the livestream of the Northern Writers’ Awards 2025. With our hosts Northumbria University, we will be celebrating our flagship awards programme and announcing this year’s winners.  

The awards recognise exceptional work-in-progress by writers in the North. We have supported more than 400 writers since 1999 to develop their work towards publication and broadcast, with many going on to critical acclaim. 

The evening concludes with the announcement of the 2025 winners, where we will award some of the region’s most exciting poets, novelists, children’s writers and authors of narrative non-fiction, many of whom are as yet unpublished.  

No sign up required, simply click the link above to watch the livestream on the day.

The Northern Writers’ Awards are produced by New Writing North and supported by Northumbria University, Arts Council England, Hachette Children’s Group, Channel 4, and a range of partners. Find out more about the awards here.