I asked ChatGPT to improve my latest novel and lost no sleep over the results. But I do worry about diverse voices being crowded out This summer two worlds – literature and technology – collided. News stories began appearing about authors suing OpenAI and Meta for using their works to train... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-12-01 06:00:07 UTC ]
Books by Akala, Alex Wheatle and Elle McNicoll are among 20 titles featuring in New Writing North's new project, focused on celebrating diverse literature in schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-11 02:47:53 UTC ]
Usborne fiction editorial director Rebecca Hill, author Candice Carty-Williams and Claire Malcolm, chief executive of New Writing North, have all been nominated for the h100 Awards, run by Covent Garden private members’ club, h Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-07 08:04:32 UTC ]
Writers including Tara Guha, Adam Bennett-Lea and James Harris are amongst the winners of this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards, administered by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 19:17:21 UTC ]
New Writing North and Michael Morpurgo’s Farms for City Children are among seven charities sharing £100,000 donated by HarperCollins UK parent company News Corp UK, via the annual News Corp Giving programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 09:16:53 UTC ]
Literary agent Clare Alexander is one of three new trustees to join writers’ development agency New Writing North along with education expert Mike Parker and writer Degna Stone. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Writing North, the literature development agency for the North of England, has released its list of ‘12 new books by northern writers you must read in 2019’, part of the Read Regional campaign that it began in 2008. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Writing North’s chief executive addresses the challenges facing under-represented writers and outlines how the group hopes to rewrite that story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group and New Writing North are creating a new award for debut children’s writers from the North of England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
London-based publishing houses are “struggling” to work out how to “address the problem of regional diversity”, New Writing North's Claire Malcolm has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK’s answer to the Nobel Prize for Literature – the £40,000 David Cohen Prize - is now being managed by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Writing North, in partnership with Channel 4 and Northumbria University, is to offer three aspiring writers the chance to work with independent production company Lime Pictures on mentoring and developmental schemes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
There is "a lack of awareness within the publishing industry about the rest of the country”, New Writing North c.e.o Claire Malcolm has alleged, whilst making the business case for signing more writers from the north of England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
We'd like to build bridges between the writing development sector and the publishing industry, to address diversity and to build new readers for contemporary writing, writes Claire Malcolm of New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
New Writing North, working with Channel 4, Northumbria University and Lime Pictures, is offering aspiring TV writers from the North of England 12-month placements in either soap or children’s drama production companies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roddy Doyle will judge the Gordon Burn Prize 2015, along with actress Maxine Peake and journalist Suzanne Moore. They will be will be joined on the judging panel by novelist and journalist Doug Johnstone and artist Gavin Turk. The £5,000 prize, launched in 2012 to celebrate innovation in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has set up a new prize in memory of author Gordon Burn, alongside New Writing North and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has set up a new prize in memory of author Gordon Burn, alongside New Writing North and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]