Thanks so much @newwritingnorth.bsky.social for longlisting my YA novel in #NorthernWritersAwards 2025. Truly honoured #placewriting #Cumberland

Really enjoyed watching last night's livestream of the #NorthernWritersAwards 2025 & celebrating its talented awardees. Over the moon to see the powerhouse that is Lizzie Lovejoy win the Sid Chaplin Award! Congratulations everyone - you're in for such a special writing time!

I'm happy that my first book made the shortlist for the Hachette Children's Novel Awards 2025, which is part of the #NorthernWritersAwards with @newwritingnorth.bsky.social. Many thanks to the judges for their encouraging feedback, and congrats to the winners!

And that rounds out this year's #NorthernWritersAwards! Another huge congratulations to all the winners – you're all brilliant, and we know the future of literature in the North is safe in your hands. It's been a privilege to celebrate you tonight 💫

A quick thank you to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social. All #NorthernWritersAwards winners are offered a year free membership of the Society of Authors – we're very grateful for their support!

Incredibly chuffed to have been shortlisted for the Sid Chaplin Award at this year’s #NorthernWritersAwards - huge thanks to the judges for their lovely, positive feedback and to New Writing North for sharing it with me.

We're delighted to be here at @northumbriauni.bsky.social tonight to celebrate the #NorthernWritersAwards 2025. We'll be kicking off the award announcements soon – come and follow along on our livestream!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC2Q...

The #NorthernWritersAwards 2025 Ceremony is tomorrow! Join our free online livestream to celebrate the region’s most exciting poets, novelists and children’s writers who have won this year's awards.

Kicking off at 8pm on Tuesday 24 June: www.youtube.com/live/MC2QyL1...

We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction 📚

Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.

Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...

And we run the Sid Chaplin Award for emerging working-class writers. More on our website about how to apply (deadline 20 March)

#AWritingChance #WorkingClassWriters #NewWritingNorthSupportedWriters #NorthernWritersAwards

Pic: Writers on A Writing Chance programme, photo by Dan Haworth-Salter

So excited to have won a New Writing North Northern Writers' Award for my novel-in-progress and to have been to the fabulous ceremony last night! It was great to meet my fellow awardees and the other guests and I'm so looking forward to the year ahead. #NorthernWritersAwards