Archives: Team members
Team members
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Degna Stone
Degna Stone is a poet based in Tyne & Wear. They are a contributing editor at The Rialto, a co-founder and former managing editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine, and an associate artist with The Poetry Exchange.
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Sara Lloyd
Sara is an experienced publishing and communications professional and Executive board director with many years building and developing teams, driving...
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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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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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Carys Vickers
Carys moved into the newly created Marketing and Communications Officer role in March 2023, after previously working with New Writing North as Digital Marketing Intern in 2021 and Finance and Operations Assistant in 2022. She coordinates social media and newsletters and provides marketing support across NWN's programmes. She has a BA in American Studies from Northumbria University.
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Phaedra Andrew
Phaedra joined New Writing North in September 2021 as Senior Manager, Finance and Operations. She has 35 years’ experience working in Finance in the private retail and lettings sectors, the last six and a half years being in the education sector.
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Tess Denman-Cleaver
Tess is Programme Manager (Participation & Young People) at New Writing North. She joined the organisation in 2021, having previously worked as a freelance programmer and artist as well as Producer of the Women Artists of the North East Library and Producer (Artists’ Moving Image) at Tyneside Cinema.
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Will Mackie
Will is Senior Programme Manager (Talent Development) and Programme Leader (MA in Publishing), leading on talent development and devising programmes...
