Blog Posts
Interviews, stories and useful advice: our blog is regularly updated with a broad range of new articles to read, including content from our Northern Bookshelf quarterly newsletter.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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The North Recommends: The Northern YA Literature Festival
15 March 2019 by
The Northern Young Adult Literary Festival is a brilliant festival ran by UCLAN dedicated to bringing the publishing industry, books...
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The North Recommends: Poetry Book Society
15 March 2019 by
Spring has finally sprung in Newcastle and we can’t wait to share our latest poetry highlights. Here are four of...
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Interview with Jessica Andrews
15 March 2019 by
When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. Having grown up seemingly a world...
