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TV Pilot Scratch Night
Hear script-in-hand readings of the opening pages of four new TV pilots from North East screenwriters, alongside live constructive feedback...
Writing as Refuge with Sulaiman Addonia
Join Eritrean-Ethiopian-British writer Sulaiman Addonia in conversation with writer Preti Taneja. They will explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the...
Celebrating Newcastle Writers: Eva Ibbotson and Winifred Watson
Eva Ibbotson and Winifred Watson were two brilliant authors who blazed a literary trail writing escapist fiction from their homes...
Book of Crow Tour
Acclaimed North East writer Anna Barker’s stunning poetry collection Book of Crow is brought to life in this special event...
Pat Barker and Anna Barker: Dipped in Ink
Anna Barker has spent the past decade uncovering the life story of one of Britain’s most revered living novelists –...
Time for Crime with Ann Cleeves and Steph McGovern
Friends and two women rooted in the North East: award-winning broadcaster Steph McGovern and Sunday Times Bestselling author Ann Cleeves,...
Mary Portas: I Shop, Therefore I Am
Mary Portas’ new memoir, I Shop, Therefore I Am, is set against the backdrop of 90s Cool Britannia. It charts...
Jeremy Vine: Murder on Line One
Inspired by a childhood love of Agatha Christie, and his decades-long career as a journalist, beloved broadcaster Jeremy Vine has...
Hidden Histories with Lanre Bakare and Jake Morris-Campbell
Jake Morris-Campbell’s Between the Salt and the Ash asks what stories the North East can tell about itself in the...
Creative Men’s Group
Significant Ink: Newcastle
Young Writers’ Summer: The Intergalactic Tourist Agency (Gateshead)
Join the Intergalactic Tourist Agency in creating an advert to entice visitors from this world and beyond to the North...
