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Freelance Opportunities at New Writing North Project Producer, Young Writers’ City (Freelance) We are seeking a dynamic, highly organised and creative Project Producer to deliver our long-running Young Writers’ City programme at Excelsior Academy. This is a unique opportunity to continue to develop an award-winning arts participation programme, supporting young people to flourish and achieve their potential. You’ll be passionate about providing opportunities for young people and will be a self-starter, with a problem solving, flexible approach and an exceptional ability to communicate with young people. This is a role for someone who’s keen to go above and beyond to support young people develop their potential through arts and culture. Previous opportunities in this role have included supporting a young person to attend auditions and filming for a major feature film; producing a filmed poem tackling racism that was picked up by the BBC; and helping to produce a new theatrical hip-hopera at Sage Gateshead. This is a freelance role £75 per half day (£125 per full day when necessary) + £250 per term for project coordination/ evaluation. (Fee is inclusive of personal travel/subsistence. Expenses will be paid for project activity.) Closing date: Monday 2 December 2019 at 5pm Audio Producer (Freelance) In 2020, we aspire to produce more content – both limited-run series and one-off programmes – on the New Writing North podcast. Our interest is in profiling writers, thinkers and artists from the North of England and making programmes that profile the North in interesting new ways.  We are interested in hearing from experienced audio producers who are available for freelance work and who are experienced programme-makers for radio or podcasts. We are ideally looking to develop a long-term working relationship with a talented producer who can both respond to our ideas and to help us shape a future strategy for New Writing North’s work in this area. The freelance audio producer will look after all aspects of booking, recording, editing, mixing, permissions and post-production of the podcasts. They will work with our in-house staff to produce finished podcasts to agreed deadlines. Closing date: 9am on Monday 6 January 2020 About us New Writing North is the literature development agency for the North of England, and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. We work in partnership with regional and national partners to produce a range of literary and performance activities including flagship projects such as the Northern Writers’ Awards, New Writing North Young Writers, the David Cohen Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and Durham Book Festival. New Writing North PO Box 1277, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 5BP Tel: 0191 204 8850 office@newwritingnorth.com     Like     Tweet     Forward

The latest news from New Writing North Enter your work-in-progress for a Northern Writers' Award We’re celebrating 21 years of the Northern Writers’ Awards as we open the platform up for entry for 2020. Entry is free and you must apply online by 6 February 2019. Judges for this year’s awards include the writers Naomi Booth, Vahni Capildeo, Mitch Johnson and Amy Liptrot; literary agent Chloe Seager, from the Madeleine Millburn Agency; bookseller Gary Deane, from Waterstones; and editor Kris Doyle, from Picador. The Northern Writers’ Awards offer support for writers at all stages of their careers, including mentoring, developmental support and cash awards to buy time to write. In addition to individual awards, New Writing North supports its winners with ongoing tailored support. In 2020 selected winners will be offered additional opportunities including the chance to pitch work to literary agents and editors at the Summer Talent Salon in London; membership of The Society of Authors; a professional development session with the leading independent publisher, Oneworld Publications; plus a visit to literary agent Madeleine Milburn Associates for advisory sessions. The awards available for 2020 are: The Northern Writers’ Awards, flagship awards strand, which offers cash prizes of up to £5000 to support writers of fiction, narrative non-fiction, YA, graphic novels, short stories and poetry. The Hachette Children’s Novel Award is open to debut children’s writers with a full-length manuscript. The winner will receive £5000 and a guarantee of publication with the Hachette Children’s Group, whose list includes authors such as: David Almond, Jessica Townsend, Onjali Q. Raúf, Cressida Cowell, Piers Torday and 2019’s winner, James Harris. The writer will also have access to other developmental opportunities offered by New Writing North. The NorthBound Book Award, in partnership with Saraband, is open to new, emerging and established writers of fiction or narrative non-fiction. This award is for a full manuscript and the winning writer will receive £5000, a guarantee of publication with Saraband and access to New Writing North’s development programmes. Saraband is a leading independent publisher, whose list includes Graeme Macrae Burnet, Chitra Ramaswamy and Ever Dundas. The Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards offer two emerging writers development opportunities within television. One writer will receive a mentoring placement with Lime Pictures working on their award-winning serial drama Hollyoaks for Channel 4 and E4. The second writer will develop an original TV drama project with Bonafide Films, whose recent shows include The Last Post by Peter Moffat for BBC One. Both winners will receive a bursary of £3000. The Northern Debut Awards programme offers structured developmental support to four writers of fiction, young adult fiction or narrative non-fiction who are yet to publish a full-length novel or collection of short stories. The package of support includes a £2000 bursary, mentoring from a practising writer and access to New Writing North’s development activities. One place will be made in memory of the North East writer Andrea Badenoch (1951-2004), whose novels include Blink and Loving Geordie, and will be awarded to a debut female writer over the age of 42. The Northumbria University Student and Alumni Award, worth £2000, for fiction or poetry, is open to final year students and recent graduates of the university in any discipline. The Sid Chaplin Award, in partnership with Newcastle University and The North Literary Agency, supports writers of fiction and narrative non-fiction who identify as originating from a working-class background. The winning writer will receive a bursary of £2000 and a comprehensive package of support including advisory support and a manuscript appraisal from The Literary Consultancy. The award is made in memory of the writer Sid Chaplin (1916–1986) whose novels including The Day of the Sardine and The Watchers and the Watched are celebrated for their vivid depictions of working-class life. TLC Free Reads Scheme, which offers up to three poets or prose writers an in-depth editorial report from The Literary Consultancy and a £500 bursary. The Arvon Award, which offers a prose writer the chance to undertake an Arvon residential creative writing course. Young Writers' Awards We're seeking applications from young people aged 12-18 who are excited about and show an early talent for creative writing. They can be writing across a broad range of forms, from poetry to blogging to rap. Young people can enter these awards themselves or they can be nominated for an award by an adult (parent, teacher, group leader etc). The Matthew Hale Award, for writers aged 12-18 and worth £500, is for talented young writers who might otherwise lack the opportunity to pursue their writing promise. The Young Northern Writer Award, worth £200, will recognise one young writer between 12 and 18 years old whose work shows exceptional promise. Test Signal: an anthology of northern writing During the Northern Writers’ Awards submission window, New Writing North and Dead Ink Books are accepting free submissions for Test Signal, a new crowd-funded anthology of northern writing, including fiction and narrative non-fiction. You can submit to the anthology in addition to entering an award. Our Partners New Writing North PO Box 1277, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 5BP Tel: 0191 204 8850 laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com