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  • 10 May 2013 Newcastle Writing Conference opens door for new writers

    We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the inaugural Newcastle Writing Conference, which took place in Northumbria University’s Great Hall last weekend, such a great success. Nearly 150 writers attended the conference and heard a range of speakers discussing topics ranging from how to break into writing, to ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in publishing today.
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  • 26 April 2013 Call for submissions: Voicewalks

    The Durham Book Festival team at New Writing North is working with the Hearing the Voice project at Durham University on a special series of events which will take place during this year’s festival. As part of the project, we’d like to invite writers of all levels to contribute to a pamphlet of poetry, prose and non-fiction in English about hearing voices when walking in the city.
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  • 21 April 2013 New Writing North launches new online magazine Cuckoo Review

    Cuckoo Review is a new online arts and culture magazine written by young people. Young writers aged 15-23 will have an opportunity to cut their journalistic teeth and offer their opinions on the latest cultural offerings in the region and beyond.
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  • 12 April 2013 Cuckoo group scores radio commission

    The Cuckoo Young Writers group in Newcastle has just been awarded their first commission from spoken-word supremos Apples and Snakes NE. The group has won one of ten commissions, which challenge poets and producers to write and produce an hour-long spoken word radio show which will be broadcast via digital station Basic FM.
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  • 10 April 2013 Words Across Northumberland writer in residence

    Words Across Northumberland, run by Hexham Book Festival, is seeking a writer in residence for a three-day residency in Rothbury in June 2013, leading to the production of a piece of prose or poetry by the end of October 2013.
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  • 3 April 2013 John Hegley has Cuckoo support for Sunderland show

    Join comedy’s Poet Laureate John Hegley on Friday 14 June for a wild word wonderland at Sunderland’s Bonded Warehouse for a show based on his new collection of poetry and prose: Peace, Love & Potatoes. John will be joined by Sunderland poet Sylvia Forrest and three young poets from the North East, including two Cuckoo Young Writers. The next day, John will be running a free writing and drawing workshop in Sunderland Central Library for young people from Sunderland aged 12-19.
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  • 2 April 2013 Full programme announced for Newcastle Writing Conference

    We’ve just confirmed the last speakers at the inaugural Newcastle Writing Conference, and the full programme is now available online at http://nclwritingconference.eventbrite.co.uk. The conference is a must-attend event for writers across the north of England who are either new to writing or have only recently been published and would like to learn more about the industry they’re now working in.

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  • 28 March 2013 Man Asian win for Newcastle publisher Myrmidon

    Tan Twan Eng has won the Man Asian Literary Prize for The Garden of Evening Mists, which was published by Newcastle-based Myrmidon Books. It's only the second time the prize has been awarded to a novel originally written in English and the first time a northern press has won this award.
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Events

  • Read Regional 2012/2013 Various library venues across the north of England: 1 October 2012, 12am

    The Read Regional campaign aims to connect local authors from the north of England to local readers via promotions in libraries, bookshops and with festivals and venues and runs from October 2012 to spring 2013. Check out the Read Regional website for details of events near you.
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  • Mystery, Magic and Midnight Feasts: The Many Adventures of Enid Blyton Seven Stories, Newcastle: 4 May 2013, 9am

    One of the best-selling writers for children of all time, Enid Blyton’s stories have delighted generation after generation. This exhibition will show, for the first time, Seven Stories’ unique Enid Blyton Collection of original typescripts and illustrations.
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  • Words Across Northumberland Venues across Northumberland: 16 May 2013, 9am

    Dan Snow, Lionel Shriver and Maggie O’Farrell present their newest novels at the Playhouse while Vivienne French judges a creative writing competition for schools at the Alnwick Garden. Resident authors will talk about their work: Sally Gardner will be bringing us words from the Garden, and libraries and mobile libraries play host to visiting authors across the wilder parts of the county.
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  • Literary and philosophical Jesmond Jesmond Library, Newcastle: 24 May 2013, 6pm

    Interested in Jesmond’s literary history? Come along to the Jesmond Community Festival, where Keith Jewitt, Michael Chaplin and Dr Lucy Pearson will be talking about literary and philosophical Jesmond. After the lecture, there will be a Q&A in which audience members can share their own knowledge and reminiscences of writers in Jesmond.
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  • Aminatta Forna in conversation Culture Lab, Newcastle University: 24 May 2013, 7:15pm

    Born in Glasgow and raised in Sierra Leone and Britain, prize-winning novelist and memorialist Aminatta Forna also spent periods of he childhood in Iran, Thailand, and Zambia. Her Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel, The Memory of Love, is a thought-provoking story about friendship, war, and obsessive love. 
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  • Kids: spoken word poetry performance Lit & Phil: 25 May 2013, 7pm

    A multi-vocal, multimedia, spoken word poetry performance, written by North East poets Andy Willoughby and Bob Beagrie and set to a live piano score composed by Anthony Flint, inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 filmŒThe Kid.
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  • Michael Donovan: Behind Closed Doors launch Michael Donovan: Behind Closed Doors launch Plackitt & Booth book shop, Lytham St Anne’s: 30 May 2013, 7pm

    PI Eddie Flynn is having a bad day. And when some snot-nosed kid barges in with a story about a missing girl, it doesn’t get any better – especially since Rebecca Slater’s parents say nothing’s wrong. Problem is, the family are telling lies.
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Moth Publishing

Check out the first four titles from Moth, a partnership between New Writing North and BEPL, who came together to publish and support crime writers who live and work in the north of England. >>>

Tyne View

Four Tynesiders set off to walk the tidal length of the River Tyne. The resulting book captures the ordinary and extraordinary people of the river and the river itself at a point of change. >>>

Cuckoo Review

Don’t miss Cuckoo Review, the new online arts and culture magazine where young writers offer their opinions on the latest cultural offerings in the North East and beyond. >>>

Dear Angel

People of the North East are being asked to write, record, tweet or film how they feel about this region as part of an engaging new literary artwork, Dear Angel. >>>

 

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