Detailing the many events coming up including the Screenwriters Weekend and Durham Book Festival:
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Literary days lie ahead this autumn 🎇
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Our brand-new programme
of writing courses and workshops, author events, community-led writing
groups, and more, is open for bookings now!
We've got something for readers and writers of
all kinds across the North.
Will you be joining us?
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This autumn, you could...
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💻 Connect and learn with other
writers in The Writers' Space
Our 12-month online
programme led by Amelia Loulli offers writers at all stages the chance to
network with peers, improve their craft through guided workshops and
seminars, and meet industry experts. £50+booking fee for the full year
beginning in September.
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🎤 Meet authors in Newcastle
This September, we'll be
joined by the bestselling Bella Mackie to talk
about her sharp and twisted new murder mystery; crime authors Louise Doughty and Charlotte Vassell
for a Faber
Fiction event; and First Nations Australia writers Graham Akhurst and Yvette Henry Holt with
British poet Linda
France for an evening
of climate poetry.
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🏆 Submit your work to the
Northern Writers' Awards
The Hachette Children's
Novel Awards open from 22 October to debut writers of children's and early
teen fiction, and our flagship Northern Writers' Awards, including prizes
for both published and unpublished writers of fiction, non-fiction and
poetry, open from 26 November. Book onto our free
online Launch Roadshow to hear advice on applying from writers
and industry professionals.
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📣 Volunteer at our festivals
and events
Looking for experience
working events, or interested in charity volunteering? Enthusiastic readers
can gain behind the scenes access and help our literary events run smoothly
at Durham Book Festival and beyond. Application deadline 13 September.
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🖋️ Start Writing for children or
for the screen
Try your hand at writing
children's stories through workshops
at Shiremoor Library led by Karon Alderman, or learn how to write
for the screen at Tyneside
Cinema with Chess
Tomlinson. These six week courses begin in September, and
are perfect for new writers or those looking to try out a new genre or
form.
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👩💻 Take a professional online
course
On our flexible, online
courses with Professional Writing Academy you could develop your skills in
screenwriting, crime fiction, life writing, the foundations of fiction,
short stories, or YA fiction. Bursaries available for residents of
Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland.
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🎟️ Grab an Early Bird Ticket for
our Screenwriting Weekender
Over a packed weekend in
early 2025, we'll bring industry talks, workshops and networking
opportunities to aspiring screenwriters in Newcastle, in partnership with
North East Screen. Limited Early Bird Tickets available now!
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... and
more!
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Writing talent is everywhere. But opportunities are not. That's why
we exist: to identify and nurture talent. To inspire a love for writing and
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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