⚡ ONE BOY vs SIX GODS ⚡

Introducing an edge-of-your-seat adventure from a magical new voice 📚Ashley Thorpe📚

The terrifying Orishas have taken his sister... With the help of a trickster god + a vengeful princess, will Kayode be...

THE BOY TO BEAT THE GODS

Out July 2024

We're SO pleased to reveal the beautiful cover for Dark Flood by Karon Alderman! 🕯️🌊

This stunning timeslip story of family, community & hope won publication with Hachette Children's Group through the 2022 #NorthernWritersAwards .

On sale this June 📚

Cover design by Hannah Peck

Northern Stage Karen Powell Eliza Clark (mostly offline) Northumbria Uni Arts Council England Okechukwu Nzelu Newcastle Hospitals Newcastle Hospitals Charity North of Tyne Combined Authority The Common Room The Word Northumberland Libraries North Tyneside Libraries Gateshead Libraries Channel 4 Channel 4Skills Showroom Cinema The Piece Hall Newcastle Libraries David Mark Laura Fish Professional Writing Academy Kavlifondet (Kavli Trust) Paul Hamlyn Foundation Community Foundation MPN Newcastle Newcastle Deaf Centre #Writing talent is everywhere. But opportunities are not. That's why we exist: to identify & nurture talent. To inspire a love for writing & reading. To create life-changing chances for people across the North.

But we can't do it alone. Can you help us?

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Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn prize for novel Kick the Latch theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Writers in Barnsley! Join us on 18 March to learn about:

✍️Getting started as a writer
✍️Pathways to publication
✍️Working with agents & editors
✍️Our award opportunities

Feat. Andrew McMillan Sarah Brooks Taiba Ahmad Adam Bennett-Lea prototype
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So excited to have the wonderful (and smiley) Nathan Bryon sharing screenwriting insight with us next week - join us online! 😁
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Spend an evening with screenwriting experts!

Our webinar on 27 February will include career insight from Nathan Bryon – the BAFTA-nominated screenwriter behind Rye Lane – and a Q&A with Andy Brereton, Senior Commissioning Editor for Comedy at Channel 4 🙌
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The #NorthernWritersAwards are on the road again!

Join us in Barnsley on Mon 18 Mar to learn from Andrew McMillan & other writers about pathways to publication, working with agents and more. We'll also look at our current & upcoming award opportunities 👀
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Literary agent Imogen Morrell will join us at the #NorthernWritersAwards Fiction Roadshow! 🙌

Spend a night thinking about your writing career with advice from Imogen, and writers Carmen Marcus, Sarah Davy & #RebeccaMuddiman .

Tue 30 Jan arcstockton
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Fab job opportunity with Headline Books Hachette UK here in Newcastle!

New Writing North The 2024 participants are: Louis Bailey, Eloise Bennett, Miruna Fulgeanu, Jordan Hayward, Rozie Kelly, Rochelle Roberts, Irína Sadóvina, and Maya Uppal.

Join us in Stockton on 30 Jan to discuss all things fiction at our #NorthernWritersAwards Roadshow ✍️

We'll hear from Carmen Marcus, #RebeccaMuddiman & Sarah Davy about building peer networks & managing a writing career.

Plus networking opportunities!

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🚨Fantastic opportunity alert🚨

The Future Worlds Prize aims to find unpublished writers of colour in the fantasy and science fiction space. Submissions close on 29 January 2024, head to their page to find out more!

#FutureWorldsPrize #WritingOpportunity #FantasyWriting

At our next online Writing for TV Masterclass, hear from...

🤩 Award-winning writer Emma Jane Unsworth
🤩 Writer/actress TIWA LADE
🤩 Channel 4 Commissioning Exec Ben Wadey

With opportunities for Q&A!

Tue 5 Dec 6:30pm, £5+booking fee.

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Hachette Children's Novel Award Roadshow, Tue 28 Nov 5:30-9pm, Tyneside Cinema, £5+booking fee

An evening of advice, networking and Q&A to demystify the publishing industry. Featuring editors from Hachette Children's Group and previous award-winners 📚

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ICYMI: Alycia Pirmohamed (Alycia Pirmohamed) has been named the third winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize (@NanPrize), the biennial prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing.

Click the image to find out more. thebookseller.com/news/pirmohame…

We're THRILLED to announce the winners of the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2023, judged by Philip Gross. Congratulations to Anna Woodford, JJ Starr-McClain and Mark Fiddes. You can read their poems here: ledburypoetry.org.uk/.../ledbury-po…
Philip Gross Arvon The Poetry Society

Children's writers - new or established!

Come to the Hachette Children's Novel Award Roadshow for an evening of advice, networking & demystifying the industry – from editors, judges & previous award-winners.

Tyneside Cinema, Tue 28 Nov, £5+booking fee

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Every day, people with #Type1 Diabetes have to make around 180 more decisions than people without type 1 🤔

❤️ and share our video to raise awareness about what it’s like living with #Type1 .

#T1D #GBDoc #DiabetesAwarenessMonth

Thank you to our incredible celebrity supporter, James Norton for raising awareness of #Type1Diabetes this #WorldDiabetesDay 💙💙

#WDD2023