Thank you The Bookseller for featuring the #NorthernWritersAwards 25th birthday in this week's issue! Especially lovely to see interviews with some of our previous winners Tawseef Khan Karon Alderman Sarah Brooks Anna Zoe 💙

Ace. Ace. ACE! Not to mention SCBWI British Isles hosting their annual conference in Manchester for the last couple of years; literally bang in the middle of the UK and more accessible for Not only Northern English writers but Scottish and Welsh too 😎

Exciting stuff! 😍 Thank you, Searchlight Writing for Children Awards !

Leaf Journal Issue 2, vol 1 is out now! Featuring seven insightful, practical articles on creative writing for young people. Read here: leafjournal.org/issue/10369

This is wondeful, but also a mask to the problem: teaching as a profession is an unsustainable career. Teachers are leaving education in their thousands. Why? Because the education system in this country is broken. Fix the system and experienced teachers will return. #edutwitter

Yay! Thank you so much Searchlight Writing for Children Awards and congratulations to all; I can’t wait to read your snippets!

#Paris2024 Olympics France is forcibly collecting migrants and refugees from the streets, putting them on buses and sending them to other regions. These individuals fleeing war and persecution face inhumane conditions once again in the places they sought refuge #BoycottParis2024

BBC:

The sheer persistence of women in defending our right to participate in sport against men's overwhelming efforts to prevent us never fails to astound me. I've written about this before - but this is what female rowers at Cambridge University were up against:

I was so looking forward to watching the Olympics this year. Not anymore. #BoycottParis2024

We're calling on the new Labour Government to support our plans to make the North East the centre of creativity for the writing industries. Let's establish a Centre for Writing in Newcastle and reposition the industry's southern and London bias 💫 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

⁦⁦New Writing North⁩ are already doing so much for Northern voices and writers, but this would be game changing. Full support ✊ thebookseller.com/news/new-writi…

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Big turnout of anti fascists in Nottingham remembering the Southport victims & opposing far right thugs. Brilliant at 24 hours notice! Keep following Stand Up To Racism & Stand Up To Racism for updates of a/fascist mobilisations.

Bristol, England.

Tonight, the true spirit of the United Kingdom has roared to life, and it is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Despite the venomous rhetoric spewed by the likes of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox, Richard Tice and so many others over the past few days, the vast, vast

So excited for fellow North West #SBCWI writing pal, Jo Somerset, on the release of her debut novel! And with 2 launch parties, too 🤩 We’re being spoiled.

Robert Jenrick inquired into revoking Palestinian student’s visa, emails reveal dlvr.it/TCmcYx