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Working Class Writers’ Week: Julie Noble
17 May 2019 by
A single parent, struggling to rebuild her life, can start to take control if she holds a pen. Writing has...
Working Class Writers’ Week: Why Can’t You Just Write?
17 May 2019 by
“Why can’t you just write?” – my housemate asked, trying not to look at the stack of maimed pages on...
Working Class Writers’ Week: Interning at NWN
16 May 2019 by
Growing up I didn’t feel defined by my class, and was even unaware of it at times. I had free...
Working Class Writers’ Week: Shaun Wilson
14 May 2019 by
I was delivering post in a quiet estate in Houghton when I got the email. My piece had been accepted...
Working Class Writers’ Week: Louise Powell
14 May 2019 by
“Good children don’t write about dog racing,” my primary school teacher told me sternly. She’d just read an account of...
Read Regional: Life as a full-time author
10 May 2019 by
There’s one element of being a full-time author I’ve never entirely become used to, even after fourteen years and eleven...
Colour Blind: Young Writers’ City @ Excelsior Academy
22 April 2019 by
Colour Blind is an important and powerful short film produced by our Young Writers' City programme.
Publishing with Faber & Faber
12 April 2019 by
On 28 March, New Writing North accompanied 10 young people on a trip to Faber & Faber in London. In...
Pride at Cramlington Young Writers
12 April 2019 by
Our Cramlington Young Writers’ have been working on a Reading Hack project to creatively respond to Proud, a forthcoming anthology of...
Working with Gateshead Young Writers
29 March 2019 by
One of the things that most excited me about the Young Writers’ City project in Gateshead was its location. I’ve...
What we’re reading: Spring edition
15 March 2019 by
Every year from March until June we celebrate books from twelve brilliant northern writers with our Read Regional campaign. Our authors are visiting...
The North Recommends: Bluemoose Books
15 March 2019 by
Bluemoose Books is an independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Kevin and Hetha Duffy started Bluemoose in 2006....
