Archives: Team members
Team members
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Clare Harington
Clare Harington was Communications Director of the publishing group Hachette UK for 12 years until she stepped down at the end of 2019.
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Joanna Ellis
Joanna Ellis has worked in and around publishing since 1998. She is currently an independent consultant working mostly in digital collection development in the library sector.
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Mark Dobson
Mark Dobson is an independent cultural consultant/adviser based in Manchester.
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Yvonne Battle-Felton
Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Remembered, is an American writer living in the UK. Her writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies.
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Clare Alexander
Clare Alexander became a literary agent in 1998 after more than 20 years as a publisher, latterly as Publisher of Viking and Hamish Hamilton and Editor-in-chief of Macmillan.
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Dr Anthony Devine
Anthony Devine is an academic at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle. He is involved in teaching, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is the Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Accounting degree.
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Dr Caroline Murphy
Over the past 25 years Caroline has held a variety of leadership roles in the cultural sector, focussing on strategic and business planning, equality and diversity, cross sector partnerships, audience engagement and impact assessment.
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David Roche
David Roche has worked in both retail and publishing as CEO of Borders and Books etc. and as Group Sales and Marketing Director of HarperCollins. Prior to these roles he was Product Director at both Waterstones and HMV.
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Laura Lewis
Laura Lewis joined New Writing North as a Digital Marketing Intern in January 2022. She has a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Northumbria University and a MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University.
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Kathryn Tann
Kathryn joined New Writing North in September 2021 as Digital Production Manager, before moving into the role of Content and Programme Producer in autumn 2022. She is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, with her first essay collection forthcoming in 2024.
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Laura Fraine
Laura Fraine looks after everything marketing, media and social media for New Writing North and its associated projects, including Durham Book Festival, Northern Writers’ Awards, Read Regional, Mayfly and The Gordon Burn Prize.
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Carys Vickers
Carys joined New Writing North as Digital Marketing Intern in January 2021, before moving into the Finance and Operations Assistant role in December 2021. She has a BA in American Studies from Northumbria University.