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Poster for the play Yen.

Octagon Theatre premiers Northern School of Writing alumnus production

Northern School of Writing Alumnus Daniel Lovatt is back at The Octogon Theatre in Bolton with his company Divided Culture Company producing Yen starring Coronation Street’s Vicky Binns. A story of two teenagers living alone and without parents, Anna Jordan’s Bruntwood Prize Winning play is directed by Divided Culture Company’s Connor Goodwin. The Independent newspaper […]

Meet Bluemoose at The NSW Publisher Fair 2025: Interview by Poppy Savage

Bluemoose Books is an award-winning independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge. They are currently finalists for Northern Publisher of the Year in the Small Press Book Awards 2025, and two of their books are presently in film and TV production with Disney and the BBC. In anticipation of their attendance at the upcoming Northern School […]

Northern School Writers selected for prestigious writing programme

MSc Games and Extended Realities lecturer Emma Nuttall and MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment graduate Dan Lovatt join eight other creatives for their annual writing programme which supports emerging filmmakers in the North of England and helps them to develop a short film from an early-stage idea to a completed script in only five months. Each […]