Young Writers
Read, watch or listen to some of the fantastic work our young writers are producing.
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Who You Really Are
An animated music video created by Y6 pupils at Kelvin Grove Primary School in Gateshead.
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Gateshead Young Writers’ City Year 1 Reflective Blog
15 July 2020 by
Just before the news was really talking about the Covid-19 outbreak in China, and certainly before it had registered the...
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Ruth Johnson on working with Kelvin Grove Community Primary School
10 February 2020 by
In this blog, theatre maker and director Ruth Johnson reflects on the experience of working on the Gateshead Young Writers...
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What working on Stitched taught me about young people
30 September 2019 by
Stitched: A Hip Hopera has been an incredibly special project to work on, and one that I feel privileged to...
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The North Recommends: Young Writers’ Reads
14 June 2019 by
Not That Kind of Girl This book is truly incredible, a work of fantastic feminism driven cleverly into a classical...
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Read: Who We Are by Excelsior Academy
03 June 2019 by
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Read: Journeys by Amble Young Writers
03 June 2019 by
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Young Writers’ Groups – Summer Term
17 May 2019 by
This term at South Shields we started off using our favorite books to inspire some writing around World Book Night 2019. The...
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Young Writers’ City at Hamilton
17 May 2019 by
*Contains some spoilers about Hamilton Engaging young people in theatre can be hard (in fact, engaging adults in theatre can...
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Colour Blind: Young Writers’ City @ Excelsior Academy
Colour Blind is an important and powerful short film produced by our Young Writers' City programme.
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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...