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Northern School of Writing to host Salford Literacy Symposium

The Northern School of Writing will be hosting the first Salford Literacy Symposium on June 30 2025. The Symposium is a free, catered, one day event, bringing together artists, school teachers, academics and community organizers to inspire the city to meet urgent challenges to rates of literacy and reading for pleasure. Speakers and panels will […]

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Dr Hazel Price talks to The Guardian Newspaper about the rise of therapy-speak

English Language expert Dr Hazel Price talked to The Guardian this week about the rise of therapy speak in contemporary culture. In the article, Hazel interprets the rise of therapy-speak in today’s culture and suggests that it is used as a legitimizing strategy. “I think we feel that if we have a specialist term for […]

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Nov 28th: Dr Caroline Magennis addresses audiences at Queen’s University Belfast

Professor Caroline Magennis will be talking to audiences at The Seamus Heaney Centre about her non-fiction book Harpy. In this timely and thoughtful book, Caroline looks beyond the often-divisive conversation around women who choose to be childfree and offers an alternative message of hope and celebration. With humour and intelligence, she explores why motherhood isn’t […]

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Confingo Emerging Writing Programme looks for talent from three northern towns

Cōnfingō is recruiting three emerging writers for a new book, Brutalist Ghost Stories. This is an anthology of short, uncanny fiction. We have commissioned 13 stories – each of which is set in or inspired by a UK brutalist landmark – from professional authors. Three additional stories will be commissioned from three emerging writers, one […]

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 […]

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Northern Publishers Fair and Manchester Festival of Literature

October is the month of the Manchester Festival Of Literature. Check out the Festival Events Site for information about authors and events at the festival, including those events hosted by Northern School Writers Caroline Magennis and Kate Feld, and the appearance of our own Jackie Kay. There are events covering all kinds of literature with […]