📢 New for summer 2024!

We're excited to announce THREE brand new eight-week courses for writers with a work in progress who are looking to refine their skills and gain personalised feedback on their manuscript.

Book now: buff.ly/3OJhezZ

I so enjoyed this conversation with Michael - got me thinking a lot about reader/writer relationships in particular and how this affects our perceptions of characters we read 🎧

So heartwarming as always ♥️🥂

Calling writers who want a new way to approach the page - no translation or foreign language experience needed, just a willingness to play with words! National Centre for Writing

Have you checked out this year's City of Literature events? This strand of the Festival is programmed by the brilliant National Centre for Writing, and offers a mix of talks, workshops, group reading events and more! 📚️

Explore the full City of Literature programme: bit.ly/2HnXulo

Writers! The Tempest Prize closes for entries at 12pm tomorrow. For unpublished LGBTQ+ writers in the North of England. £1000, mentoring and access to wider New Writing North support. Details here:

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Join us for a special event this Thursday showcasing another successful year of the Emerging Translator Mentorships programme 🌟

Fresh from 6 months' mentoring our talented translators will offer readings from their translation projects.
Register here: buff.ly/3uuzAyG

🚨🚨🚨There's just under a week remaining for literary translators to apply to become our third Translation Advisory Co-Chair, supporting and advising
English PEN's translation and international literature programme.

Please spread the word and apply!

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Dreamy writing retreat opportunity alert!

A massive congratulations to Yang Lian, who has just won the 2024 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award!

Yang Lian will be at Norwich's National Centre for Writing THIS WEEKEND to celebrate the launch of the PTC's new essay anthology, Living in Language: buff.ly/3OGfHLM

Scenes from the fair! #LBF2024 Tree of books! Standing room only at the Literary Translation Centre! Thought-provoking discussion English PEN stage! Great to see our emerging translators cohort + many faces, new & familiar 🙂 #booklovers

Bound for The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 where our 2023/24 Emerging Literary Translators will experience their 1st fair! The National Centre for Writing team will mainly be found at the Literary Translation Centre which has a fab, packed programme over the next 3 days!

The world needs to hear your voice! 🎤

Join us for a poetry open mic night with a polylingual flavour. We are looking for poems written in all languages from Arabic to Zapotec, and every other language spoken in Norfolk. Poetry Translation Centre

Book now: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/polylin…

🎉 NEW PTC BOOK OUT NOW! 🎉

Celebrate the release of Living in Language, our new essay anthology, with us at National Centre for Writing in Norwich on World Poetry Day!

The weekend of poetry events kicks off our 20th birthday celebrations! ⬇️
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Cracking night Northern Stage last night c/o New Writing North, celebrating the 2023 Gordon Burn Prize 🏆 Fascinating chat with all 7 writers on the shortlist (expertly chaired by Nick Ahad), live music + awesome winner in Kathryn Scanlan DauntBooksPublishing 🎊⭐ congrats all!

Faber Books Durham Book Festival Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop Claire Malcolm Newcastle University NCLA Nick Ahad Rory Carroll Jonathan Escoffery Anna Funder John Niven HQ Kathryn Scanlan tanya tagaq Jayne Dent ~ Me Lost Me Terri White Andrew Hankinson Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Sheena Patel Kathryn Scanlan is the winner of the #GordonBurnPrize 2023/24! 🏆🐎 

Kick the Latch is 'a thundering achievement', vividly capturing the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack. Kathryn wins £10,000 and a writing retreat at Gordon Burn's cottage. 

newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-pr…

Thank you to the judges & prize & to Gordon Burn & his legacy — & to Jimena Gorraez & Marigold Atkey & everyone at DauntBooksPublishing! & to Harriet Moore! Congratulations to all of the long & shortlisted writers!

Congratulations Santanu Bhattacharya 🏳️‍🌈, this sounds amazing! 👏🏼👏🏼

Dear March – Come In –

Discover our incredible delegates for the International Literature Exchange 2024 📚

Our delegates come from a range of different backgrounds within the literature sector and will today participate in our second online ILX symposium #litxchange Read more: buff.ly/49uAGK3