Creative Writing (Multidiscipline) graduate Alan Taylor has sold options on his debut feature screenplay Amongst Sheep to Italian Production Company Geko Movies for a four figure sum with five figures on the table for development. Geko, a production company whose clients include Italy’s major broadcaster Rai, and international companies like Mercedes Benz and Ducati, will […]
The Northern School of Writing will be co-hosting the BBC’s biggest poetry festival this September, with events planned at the University of Salford Media City campus. The school’s Professor Jackie Kay will be a keynote speaker, sharing her life and work. For a full list of events featuring the nation’s premier poets, BBC TV and […]
We’re delighted to be providing workshops for the 2026 Manchester Festival Of Libraries. Between June 10th and 14th, you can visit a library in Manchester for a fascinating workshop on everything from Nollywood Hair, to the significance of names, the connections between poetry and planting, and what animals know about our health. These free workshops […]
A Salford academic is staging the full-length English language premiere of the acclaimed Hungarian drama The Dead Man at our MediaCity campus next month. Tickets for the performances can be purchased via Eventbrite. Dr Szilvi Naray will bring a full-length adaptation of János Háy’s World War Two drama to audiences across three nights from Thursday 21 May […]
Northern School of Writing lecturer and playwright Stephen Hornby has just completed a tour of his new play The BBC’s First Homosexual. Previews of the show featured in The Guardian, BBC Radio Four’s The World Tonight and the Manchester Evening News. The director of the play is Oli Hurst, a performance alumni from the University […]
Multi-Award winning novelist Danielle Jawondo spoke to students at The Northern School of Writing on March 11th 2026. As an author from Manchester with a working-class background, Danielle inspired students studying Introduction to Children’s Literature with conversation about the vitality of YA publishing, its social influence on generations of readers and her own experience from […]
The Northern School of Writing’s Professor Jackie Kay was honoured to launch the National Year of Reading alongside Her Majesty The Queen in Scotland on Monday 19 January and take up the role of ambassador. The event featured other Scottish authors, local primary school children and Dennis the Menace (!), and took place at the National Library […]
Lecturer Kate Feld has new work in the Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of Irish literary journal Banshee. Her essay, ‘Slack Lane’, negotiates the experience of altered cognitive processing after a serious illness, during a winter drive around the Lancashire coast. It’s a haibun – a Japanese form that combines prose writing and haiku. “Banshee was a great fit for […]
At the Northern School of Writing, part of our core business is inspiring and lifting the voices of our working class creatives. None of us gets ahead without networking. Aviva Studios are running a valuable networking event for Working Class creatives on December 9th. Get involved by the following the link here.
Tell us about your ambition to work in archives, how did you discover you wanted to do this? When it came to looking at career choices in sixth form college, I had just decided I no longer wanted to be a lawyer and realised how much I loved organising, filing and spending time in libraries. I […]