Writer, researcher, lover of words and previous Northern Writers' Awards-winner, Yvonne Battle-Felton tells us where she writes, creating a detailed picture of her day to day process.
As we reach the end of the entry period, applications for Northern Writers’ Awards 2018 are coming in thick and fast. We asked Will Mackie, New Writing North’s Senior Programme Manager (Writing and Awards) for his advice for those who are still finessing their application.
As a part of Durham Book Festival, group leader Celine Elliott and lead writer Bob Beagrie delivered a number of workshops in Dene Community College with their year 9 students. They took with them, the Big Read book, David Almond's Half a creature from the sea to use as a starting point for their inspiration. Celine Elliott tells us how they got on.
Freelance TV quiz question-writer, author and previous Northern Writers Award winner Sarah Dunnakey shows us where she writes, revealing how music aids her writing and how her job fuels her fiction.
Laura Steven, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay, writes about her trip to Tórshavn as part of the Waters and Harbours in the North writers' exchange, from a mammoth 13-hour journey by way of Copenhagen to an exhibition at Nordic House.
Degna Stone talks about her experience of her Waters and Harbours in the North residency in Reykjavík with three other poets, each from Iceland, Swedan and the Faroes, and a visual artist from Iceland. She explores the culture, history and food (strictly vegan!) in this blog post.
As part of the Waters and Harbours in the North project, three writers from Sweden, Iceland and the Faroes visited Newcastle with Michael Chaplin as their guide around the past and present of Northumberland. Here he writes about his experience of the project and a history shared across the North Sea.
Mark describes his experience of Gothenburg during the writers' exchange as part of the Waters and Harbours in the North project, a partnership between New Writing North and literature organisations in Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Amy Lord, Northern writer and blogger invites us into the cosy space she uses to write, the very place in which she finished her Northern Writers' Award winning title The Disappeared, due to be published by Unbound.
Yorkshire-based writer and previous Northern Writers' Award winner, Richard Smyth invites us to see where he writes. As a writer of journalism, short stories and novels, as well as being a part of the Mastermind question team and a crossword creator, his writing space is also his office.
Group leader of the Cuckoo Young Writers' Group in South Shields gives us an update on what they have been up to this term.
"Teenagers don’t want to stand out from the crowd. We all know that besides parental example, peer influence is one of the key determinants of the world view of a young person. If our friends and peers see educational attainment as something to be valued then we are more likely to aspire to the same." Anna Disley, our Executive Director (Programme and Impact) talks about Young Writers' City.
