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.
Working Class Writers’ Week: The Sid Chaplin Award
17 May 2019 by
In the early months of 1941 – the darkest time of the Second World War – a young pitman took...
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...
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...
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....
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...
