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Writing Crime Fiction
Online course starting 30 September 2024
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Stories from Life
Online course starting 14 October 2024
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Write and Submit a Short Story
Online course starting 7 October 2024
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Story for Screenwriting: Advanced Structure
Online course starting 11 September 2024
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Start Writing for Children: Creative Writing Workshops at Shiremoor Library
Every Tuesday for six weeks, 17 September 2024 – 22 October 2024 10.30am–12.00pm
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Start Screenwriting: Screenwriting Workshops at Tyneside Cinema
Every Wednesday for six weeks, 18 September 2024 – 23 October 2024 6.00pm–7.30pm
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Bella Mackie in Conversation
Thursday 19 September 6-7pm
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Four Seasons in One Poem: Chimneys, Icebergs, and Desert Rains
Thursday 19 September 6:30-8pm
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Faber Fiction with Louise Doughty and Charlotte Vassell
Wednesday 25 September 6:30-7:30pm
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Creativity for Mindfulness Workshop
Friday 27 September 12-1pm
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Fiction Foundations
Online course starting 7 October 2024
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Laura Fish: Lying Perfectly Still
Thursday 10 October 6:30-7:30pm
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The Forward Prizes for Poetry Ceremony
Thursday 10 October 7-9:30pm (doors 6:30pm)
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Workshop: Writing Life and Landscape with Kathryn Tann
Friday 11 October 3-4:30pm
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Workshop: Create a Sustainable Writing Practice with Bec Evans
Friday 11 October 5-6:30pm
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Books and Beats
Friday 11 October 6-10pm
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An Evening with Jackie Kay
Friday 11 October 6-7pm
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Craig Brown: A Voyage Around the Queen
Friday 11 October 6:30-7:30pm
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Pat Barker: The Voyage Home
Friday 11 October 8-9:45pm
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Ancestral Reverb: Our Carbon Heritage Explored
Saturday 12 October 10-11am
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Bethan Clarke: Holey Moley Storytime
Saturday 12 October 10-10:45am
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Little Read: I Am Brave Storytime
Saturday 12 October 11-11:45am
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God and Cosmology: From Temple Chevallier to Stephen Hawking
Saturday 12 October 11am-12pm
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Edith Hall: Facing Down the Furies
Saturday 12 October 11:30am-12:30pm
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Workshop: Create a Picture Book with Lucy Farfort
Saturday 12 October 12-1:30pm
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Jodi Picoult: By Any Other Name
Saturday 12 October 1-2pm
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David Peace: Munichs
Saturday 12 October 1:30-2:30pm
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Workshop: Writing for Middle Grade with Ashley Thorpe
Saturday 12 October 2-3:30pm
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Helen Fielding: Mad About Bridget Jones
Saturday 12 October 3-4pm
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Writing From Conflict
Saturday 12 October 3:30-4:30pm
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Terry Deary: A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
Saturday 12 October 5-6pm
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North East Now
Saturday 12 October 5:30-6:30pm
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Manya Wilkinson: Lublin
Saturday 12 October 6:30-7:30pm
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Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings
Saturday 12 October 7-8pm
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Kate Fox: Bigger on the Inside
Saturday 12 October 7:30-8:50pm
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Workshop: Writing Adventurous Non-Fiction with Dan Richards
Sunday 13 October 10:30am-12pm
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John Murray Proof Party
Sunday 13 October 10:30-11:30am
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Thrilling Fiction with Lucy Foley and Matthew Blake
Sunday 13 October 11am-12pm
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Capturing Class
Sunday 13 October 12:30-1:30pm
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Workshop: The Killer Inside You: Writing Crime Fiction with Cathi Unsworth
Sunday 13 October 1-2:30pm
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Tracy Chevalier: The Glassmaker
Sunday 13 October 1-2pm
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Tish: Screening
Sunday 13 October 2-3:30pm
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Andrew McMillan and Tawseef Khan: Writing the North
Sunday 13 October 2:30-3:30pm
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Oliver Burkeman: Meditations for Mortals
Sunday 13 October 3:30-4:30pm
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Annie Garthwaite and Sean Lusk: History’s Hidden Women
Sunday 13 October 4:30-5:30pm
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Rebecca F. Kuang: Yellowface
Sunday 13 October 5:30-6:30pm
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Translation Slam: Woodworm by Layla Martínez
Sunday 13 October 5:30-6:30pm
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The Little Read: I Am Brave Spennymoor Library Workshop
Monday 28 October 10:30-11:30am
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Little Read: I Am Brave Crook Library Workshop
Monday 28 October 2:30-3:30pm
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Little Read: I Am Brave Peterlee Library Workshop
Tuesday 29 October 10:30-11:30am
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Little Read: I Am Brave Barnard Castle Library Workshop
Tuesday 29 October 2:30-3:30pm
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Northern Writers’ Awards 2025 Launch Roadshow
Tuesday 26 November 7-8pm
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Screenwriting Weekender
31 January – 2 February 2025
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Newbiggin Hall Young Performers
Wednesdays during term time 4-5:30pm
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West End Writes Creative Drop-in
every Tuesday 10am-12pm
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North Shields Young Writers
Saturdays during term time 11am-1pm
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Brown Girls Write
Dates and times TBC
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South Shields Young Writers
Saturdays during term time 11am-1pm
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Newcastle Young Writers
Saturdays during term time 11am-1pm
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Gateshead Young Writers
Saturdays during term time 11am-1pm
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Cramlington Young Writers
Saturdays during term time 11am-1pm
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First Edition (18-25 Writers’ Group)
Wednesdays during term time 6-8pm
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Newbiggin Hall Creates (50+)
Thursday mornings 10am-12pm
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World Writes
Mondays during term time 11am-1pm
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Newbiggin Hall Creative Writing Group
every Thursday 12-2pm
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Remembered West
Thursdays during term time 2-3:30pm
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Safe Space (16-25)
Every other Friday during term time 2:30-4pm