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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Screenplay Formatting: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It Right
14 December 2016 by
“Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding.” –...
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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...
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Durham Book Group: The Muse by Jessie Burton
25 November 2016 by
Hello to all our members and welcome to Paula and Sam who joined us for their first time at our...
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What kind of relationship do we have with the truth?
18 November 2016 by
My new novel, An Honest Deceit, asks – what kind of relationship do we have with the truth? Given that...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
16 November 2016 by
I was impressed that so many people had come out on such a cold and dark November evening for our...
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Durham Book Group: Writing the First World War
12 November 2016 by
October’s reading choice was Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’, the first of a trilogy of First World War novels in which she...
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Laura Barnett: Blog on Kathryn Williams’s writers’ retreat for Durham Book Festival 2016
03 November 2016 by
Writing, for me, is usually a solitary activity. I’m not one of those authors who can tap out a few...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
14 October 2016 by
It was lovely to meet Jenny, who joined us for the first time on Wednesday evening, for what turned out...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
30 September 2016 by
What a lovely start to our first session back after the summer break – not only do we welcome three...