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Northern Writers' Awards
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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...
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Screenwriting Competitions: Choosing the Right One For You
28 December 2016 by
Screenwriting competitions are a great way for the film industry to identify up-and-coming screenwriting talent. There are currently a great...
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Pitching: An Essential Skill For Screenwriters
19 December 2016 by
Pitching is the process of verbally ‘selling’ your screenplay. It is a concise but persuasive summary that highlights the...
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Mark Pajak on winning a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry
19 December 2016 by
When asked that old question, ‘Why study Creative Writing?’ I used to shoot back, ‘Because I want to be a...
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Clare Weze on winning a Northern Writers’ Award 2016
09 December 2016 by
I haven’t yet come down from the ceiling since winning a Northern Writers’ Award. Hearing a lovely review of my...
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What we learned at the Writing for TV and Radio Roadshow
08 December 2016 by
Despite the overhead lines in the Warrington area doing all they could to stop us, we made it to the...
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A visit to Leeds for the fiction roadshow
01 December 2016 by
“I thought I’d be out of here at eleven but that was actually really interesting!” A lady confides in me...
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Our poetry roadshow in Sheffield
25 November 2016 by
Each year we take to the road to spread the word about the Northern Writers’ Awards, visit new places and...
