Events on campus available to students
Children’s Author Matt Lucas will be visiting The Northern School of Writing on Friday November 28 2025 to entertain over 300 school children as he launches his new children’s novel Bobland. Matt’s visit is a result of The Northern School of Writing’s partnership with The National Literacy Trust to support and celebrate Literacy in the […]
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 […]
Northern Writing School novelist Marek Bekerman is celebrating the launch of his first children’s book, Sophie and Tempus. Sophie, the daughter of a small town mayor, finds adventure and adversity as she seeks to restore harmony to a town where people are mysteriously effected by the deafening chimes of the town clock. People say the […]
The Northern School of Writing has partnered with Manchester Festival of Libraries to deliver a diverse array of workshops from writers, practitioners and academics at The University of Salford. From Victoria Wood to Sharks, these research informed workshops for the public will help celebrate Libraries as spaces of community and learning across Greater Manchester. Dive […]
Salford based Saraband have a formidable reputation for prize winning literary and commercial fiction and recently collaborated with The University of Salford to produce an audiobook. MA student Elizabeth Campbell spoke to founding editor Sara Hunt to find out more ahead of our publisher fair on March 27th, UoS library (11.00 – 16.00) What are […]
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publishing house based in Leeds. This press aims to publish and uplift voices from the UK, the Caribbean and its diasporas, and make a difference to diversity in UK publishing. Their books will be featured in the Northern Publishers section of the UoS library after their appearance at the […]
Britain’s premier poetry press, Bloodaxe will be joining us at UoS library on March 27th for our 2025 publishing fair. Leah Parkinson met senior editor Neil Astley to find out more about the publisher who smashed the mould of poetry publishing in Britain and changed it forever. Read the interview and then meet Bloodaxe yourself […]
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 […]
Northodox is an independent publisher based in Manchester and Sheffield and established in 2020. If you are exhausted by a book market oversaturated with stories of a London-centric Britain or the cozy Cotswolds, look no further. Northodox’s books will be joining the shelves of UoS Library this year as we build a Northern Publishers Bookshelf […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of a permanent shelf at the Library featuring books by publishers from the North of the UK. 15 Publishers will be joining us for the very first Northern School of Writing Publishers Fair. The Fair will take place at the University of Salford Library on Peel Park Campus. Editors […]