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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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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Crossing over from horror to crime fiction
20 December 2016 by
Like Poe’s Tell Tale Heart, horror has beaten a constant tattoo around me. Monsters, ghosts, demons, UFOs have always been...
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Being A Cuckoo Young Writer
20 December 2016 by
I joined Cuckoo Young Writers just over a year ago, when I dragged my best friend, Shana, to the Cramlington...
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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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New Writing North’s books of the year 2016
16 December 2016 by
We love a good end of year list in the office, so we thought we’d bring you a selection of...
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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...
