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Northern Writers' Awards
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Lockhaugh Farm: Fiction Writing Retreat 2023
29 November 2023 by
Bridget Hamilton, 2023 Northern Writers' Award winner, recounts her writing retreat at Lockhaugh Farm that was included as part of her prize.
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Celebrating Northern Screen Talent
02 October 2023 by
NWN Chief Exec Claire Malcolm feeds back on our special Writing for TV awards event, and celebrates the exciting work we're developing to support screenwriting in the North.
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Fifteen Wild Decembers: Interview with Karen Powell
15 September 2023 by
Fifteen Wild Decembers is Northern Writers’ Award winner Karen Powell’s dazzling second novel. It follows Emily Brontë and her siblings...
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The Bay: Interview with Julia Rampen
24 August 2023 by
Julia Rampen’s novel The Bay was published by Saraband on 10 August 2023, after winning the NorthBound Book Award in...
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Khatijah Balu on winning the TLC Free Reads Award 2022
20 July 2023 by
Khatijah Balu, winner of the 2022 TLC Free Reads Award, writes about her experience, from entering the award all the...
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Notes from a Mentorship
03 March 2022 by
Amy Stewart won the Word Factory Apprentice Award 2021 as part of the Northern Writers’ Awards. In this blog, Amy...
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My Publication Story
13 January 2021 by
Winning a Northern Writers’ Award has changed my writing life. As a published poet, I didn’t have a lot of...
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Ciah White on winning a Northern Writers’ Award
30 July 2019 by
Writing is something I’ve always done. However, poetry was something I saw as almost pretentious; perhaps because back then I...
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The Application Dilemma
17 January 2019 by
I’m a bit rubbish at sending work off and competitions are just not my thing. I can’t visualise any circumstances...
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Winning the Andrea Badenoch Award
10 January 2019 by
It’s good to be asked to write a short piece about winning one of the Northern Writers’ Awards because I...
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From Coast to Coast to Coast
09 January 2019 by
The day I received the email from New Writing North stands out clearly. I’d just received some positive comments about...
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On Crowdfunding My Debut Novel
19 December 2018 by
If writing a book is a strange process that can take you from inspiration to despair, then crowdfunding one is...
