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- Northern Writers’ Awards 2012
Northern Writers’ Awards 2012
Welcome to the Northern Writers’ Awards, our unique support programme for writers who live and work in the North East of England. The awards are supported by Arts Council England and sponsored by The Leighton Group and Sunderland University.
The awards exist to support talented writers to move their work towards publication. The awards primarily support poets, novelists and prose writers working on biographies and memoirs.
You may enter for a Time to Write Award if you are an established writer with a history of publication, a Northern Promise Award if you are a new writer who is not yet fully published, and for the special Andrea Badenoch Fiction Award if you are a female writer over the age of 42.
There are three judges for the 2012 awards: Simon Trewin, literary agent at United Agents; Laura Palmer, editorial director for fiction at start-up publisher, Head of Zeus and former editor at Atlantic Books; and poet and broadcaster Paul Farley.
The awards fund for 2012 is £25,000, which is made up from funding from Arts Council England and sponsorship from the Leighton Group and Sunderland University. The judges of the awards will decide how this money is awarded across all of the winning writers. Awards in the past have ranged from small bursaries of £500 to major awards of £10,000.
The awards exist to support talented writers to move their work towards publication. The awards primarily support poets, novelists and prose writers working on biographies and memoirs.
You may enter for a Time to Write Award if you are an established writer with a history of publication, a Northern Promise Award if you are a new writer who is not yet fully published, and for the special Andrea Badenoch Fiction Award if you are a female writer over the age of 42.
There are three judges for the 2012 awards: Simon Trewin, literary agent at United Agents; Laura Palmer, editorial director for fiction at start-up publisher, Head of Zeus and former editor at Atlantic Books; and poet and broadcaster Paul Farley.
The awards fund for 2012 is £25,000, which is made up from funding from Arts Council England and sponsorship from the Leighton Group and Sunderland University. The judges of the awards will decide how this money is awarded across all of the winning writers. Awards in the past have ranged from small bursaries of £500 to major awards of £10,000.
The deadline for entries for the awards is Friday 20 April 2012.
Click here for full submission guidelines.
Please note that entries received which do not adhere to the submission guidelines will not be processed or returned.
