New Writing North: News

Contribute to new Tyneside Twitter novel

2012-05-08T20:42:00+00:00

New media artists and writers Jon Winet and Peter Likarish are busy in pre-production on Tyneside Novel, a Twitter-based fiction work to be created over a three-day period from 13-15 June by a soon-to-be-formed community of writers. The US-based duo will travel to Newcastle to work...

Spring season gets underway with Murder Wall launch

2012-05-03T09:00:00+00:00

Our spring season got off to a great start last weekend with the launch of Mari Hannah’s novel, The Murder Wall, at Hexham Book Festival. The detective at the heart of the novel...

Juice Festival Press Gang: volunteer journalism opportunity

2012-05-02T15:53:00+00:00

New Writing North is teaming up with Juice Festival to search for young writers to take part in their Press Gang project, which will give writers the opportunity to write pre-festival articles, reviews and blogs for the Juice Festival 2012. As part of...

NWN launches spring/summer programme

2012-04-19T16:56:00+00:00

We’re full of the joys of spring this week, and have just launched our new season programme, which heralds the arrival of some great books by regional authors, including exciting new novels from Richard Milward, Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Dan Smith, and a debut from Mari Hannah. We’re...

What About Me? New Writing North presents a discussion about dementia, combining arts and science

2012-04-11T10:04:00+00:00

For the last six months, New Writing North has been working in partnership with The Changing Age team at Newcastle University, Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK Newcastle to better understand the science and the experience of living with dementia.

Funded through...

Wonders of the North team need a playwright

2012-04-05T12:14:00+00:00

Wonders of the North team need a playwright: deadline 19 April We’re delighted to be taking part in the Wonders of the North festival, a festival aiming to raise the sense of belonging which young people feel to this summer's Olympics by celebrating the region, its places, stories and...

Read Regional 2012: Open call for submissions for new books by Northern writers

2012-03-22T15:13:00+00:00

Open call for submissions for new books by Northern writers

Deadline for submissions Monday 30 April 2012

We are delighted to open the call for writers and publishers to propose their books for inclusion in the 2012...

Young writers needed for Wonders of the North festival

2012-03-12T10:59:00+00:00

New Writing North is looking for young writers aged 11-19 to get involved in a playwriting project, which will be part of the Wonders of the North festival taking place across the region from 27 July-4 August. Young people will work with a professional playwright and young actors and directors...

Geordie Sinatra takes to the stage at Live

2012-03-10T18:29:00+00:00

Fiona Evans’ new play, Geordie Sinatra, opens at Live Theatre from 18 April-12 May. Produced in association with New Writing North, the show is a dark comedy that gets under the skin of dementia. Alongside the production, New Writing North has been working with three writers...

Hexham Book Festival launches 2012 programme

2012-03-10T18:27:00+00:00

The programme for the seventh Hexham Book Festival has been launched and is available to view at www.hexhambookfestival.co.uk. The festival takes place between 23 April-3 May and this year events are taking place in Hexham and across...

Cowgate Illuminations: Call for expressions of interest for artists commission

2012-03-05T15:25:00+00:00

Wunderbar and Newcastle City Council Arts Development Team are looking to work with artists or creative people to lead on a project that illuminates The Cowgate Centre, developed and designed through DIY, community-led means.

We are...

Young writers' group launches in South Shields

2012-02-29T15:19:00+00:00

Following our very successful day of mini-workshops for young writers at the beginning of the month, on Saturday 3 March New Writing North will launch a regular young writers' group in South Shields. Sessions will take place in the Learning Room at South Shields Museum and Art Gallery between...

BBC seek writers, poets and performers for CBeebies show

2012-02-21T12:50:00+00:00

THE SERIES – The Rhyme Rocket : CBeebies

“The Rhyme Rocket” will aid basic literacy amongst early year’s children and open the audience’s eyes to a mouth-watering world of tongue-twisting, eye-popping and laugh out loud rhymes, poems and songs. It is...

Help us map the literary North

2012-02-10T10:16:00+00:00

We’ve teamed up with NALD, the National Association for Literature Development, to create a literary map of northern England. Over the coming months, we’ll be helping staff at NALD collate information and contact details of every person and organisation in the North East, North West...

Cuckoo Quarterly Issue 2 published

2012-01-31T10:31:00+00:00

Cuckoo Quarterly, the new literary magazine created, written and edited entirely by young people, has had a phenomenal success with its first edition, which launched in October.

The editorial team has also been delighted with the wide range of submissions they received...

Peter Straughan picks up Oscar nomination

2012-01-31T10:29:00+00:00

Congratulations to New Writing North alumnus Peter Straughan who along with his late partner, Bridget O’Connor, has been nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay adaptation of John le Carre’s Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy.

Peter was one of the first writers whose...

Northern Writers' Awards 2012 open for entry

2012-01-17T11:48:00+00:00

Once again we’re inviting writers across the north east of England to submit their work of poetry or prose for the chance to win a share of a £25,000 prize pot.

The annual Northern Writers’ Awards, run by New Writing North, are a great chance for you to gain...

People�s Play Award 2012 open for submissions

2012-01-10T18:56:00+00:00

The People’s Theatre and New Writing North are pleased to announce the return of the People’s Play Award. This biennial competition is run to find an exciting new play that will be produced for one week in the studio theatre at the People's Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, in...

Kate Edwards joins Frances Lincoln judging panel

2011-12-08T19:09:00+00:00

Seven Stories chief executive Kate Edwards has joined the 2013 judging panel of The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award, founded in 2009 to encourage and promote diversity in children�s fiction. Also new on board are Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and award-winning novelist Alex Wheatle, who...

No Redemption photographic exhibition in Newcastle

2011-11-30T14:56:00+00:00

Last year, we were very proud to be involved in the publication of No Redemption by Keith Pattison and David Peace...