“It sounds a bit pretentious but I do lose track,” says the storytelling powerhouse that is Alexander McCall Smith, apologising for the latest benign tsunami of tales he is unleashing upon us. Bit of an exaggeration, probably, but he does rather spoil his fans. “I’ve got a new Ramotswe coming out, I’ve got a new …
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 …
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 …
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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