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.
Four Things for Your Northern Writers’ Awards Application
23 January 2018 by
As we reach the end of the entry period, applications for Northern Writers’ Awards 2018 are coming in thick and...
Writing Workshops with the Big Read in Dene Community School
22 January 2018 by
Over six weeks, writer Bob Beagrie and I took two groups of year 9 students on a whistle-stop tour of...
Where I Write: Sarah Dunnakey
19 January 2018 by
As a freelance TV quiz question-writer and verifier, I spend hours at my desk working on my computer. The job...
Laura Steven: Tórshavn and Waters and Harbours in the North
17 January 2018 by
When New Writing North first invited me to attend a week-long residency in the Faroe Islands, as part of the...
Degna Stone: Reykjavík and Waters and Harbours in the North
16 January 2018 by
Since going freelance I’ve found it increasingly hard to squeeze writing into the gaps between projects and family commitments; so...
Michael Chaplin: Newcastle and Waters and Harbours in the North
16 January 2018 by
It was our third day together and we were on our way to the Farne Islands via Seahouses, taking a...
Mark Illis: Gothenburg and Waters and Harbours in the North
16 January 2018 by
Early start. On my way to Gothenburg to take part in a project on water and harbours. I’m through Duty...
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...
Where I Write: Richard Smyth
05 January 2018 by
I roll out of bed, shamble downstairs, make tea for my wife and put down biscuits for the cat, and...
Teaching students to value learning with Young Writers’ City
12 December 2017 by
Teenagers don’t want to stand out from the crowd. We all know that besides parental example, peer influence is one...
Making art in Sunderland
08 December 2017 by
It’s an exciting time to be making things in Sunderland. This week we will find out if Sunderland have been...
New Writing North – Books of the Year 2017
08 December 2017 by
Claire Malcolm I enjoyed Richard Lloyd Parry’s non-fiction account of Lucie Blackman’s murder, People Who Eat Darkness – a dark...
