A leading North East author says he’s ‘thrilled’ to appear on the UK’s most prestigious crime writing long list for the second time. Trevor Wood, from Newcastle, joins Vera creator Anne Cleeves as a Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 nominee. And the playwright and journalist turned award-winning author is hoping to …
Writers and readers are alerted to the summer programme of New Writing North (NWN), that engine of literary enterprise that has worked wonders for all who take pleasure in words. From the humblest of beginnings, the Newcastle-based writing development agency has grown to embrace the North as defined from coast to coast, helping writers in …
If you were one of the tens of thousands of fans who flocked to St James Park in the heady days of Keegan, Shearer, Tino and Darren Peacock, then you may well be the star of a new photo collection. Lower Block specialise in publishing books, photo zines and prints that aim to celebrate football …
Anyone who tore through Steve Chambers’ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second — 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, I’d say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisher’s dream, a page-turner. There’s a precedent …
The North East has always been a cultural cradle for artists yet there remains challenges to overcome when it comes to turning creative dreams into reality. That is why writer and founding director of ‘Write on the Tyne,’ Helen Aitchison, has made it her goal in life to help others tell their stories. “We all …
A full house is expected for this year’s Newcastle Writing Conference for which tickets go on sale today (March 20). Writing may be a solitary activity but that doesn’t mean all writers are solitary people. Grace Keane, senior programme manager at New Writing North, says it’s been five years since the conference last took place. …
Los Angeles-based author Kathryn Scanlan is the winner of the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize for Kick the Latch, her novel set in the world of American racehorse training. The announcement was made at Northern Stage, in Newcastle, by journalist, author and screenwriter Terri White, chair of the judges. Kick the Latch, published in January 2023 …
Hercules reborn as a self-obsessed Peterlee strongman seems a dead cert to be one of the highlights of ClassicsFest, a new festival blowing the dust off ancient Greek and Roman literature. A key part of the new festival was a challenge to North East writers to produce a modern version of one of the monologues …
It’s World Book Week and where better to celebrate than Seven Stories where the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, is visiting today (March 6). Tomorrow, which is World Book Day, there will be 20-minute Storytimes sessions for young children and on Friday Richard O’Neill will decide which school has won a competition to secure his presence …
I started researching and writing my first book, Good Girl Deprogramming, in 2019 after 20 years as an organisational psychologist (a psychologist for businesses and their people). I’d seen many ways in which women struggled to find their place, assert their authority, and be recognised for their expertise — I saw it too frequently and …
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