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Northern Writers' Awards
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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...
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Iain Rowan: A Room with a View
20 November 2018 by
Winning any kind of award or prize is always wonderful for any writer. For a moment, just for a moment,...
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A Shed of One’s Own
04 October 2018 by
I’ll start with a confession. When I first read Virginia Woolf’s famous essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ in my...
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Where I Write: Eloise Unerman
05 March 2018 by
How do I work? Now there’s a question. I’ve never been asked that before but when New Writing North put...
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Where I Write: Amy Lord
12 January 2018 by
It probably says a lot about me that, despite spending a fair portion of my time writing and blogging, I...
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Sarah Dunnakey: The Northern Writers’ Awards
21 November 2017 by
On Thursday 30th January 2014 I was sitting at my computer. Working. But I had the occasional glance at Twitter...