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 …
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 …
This was the commission: The Gordon Burn Prize is going to be hosted in Newcastle from now on, so could I write something about him and his home city? Yes, but warily. Warily because I wasn’t sure how Burn felt about Newcastle. I knew he grew up in the city’s west end, but he left …
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