Newcastle University

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is a focus for numerous creative writing activities and events. As such, we have developed over the years strong regional links:

• In conjunction with New Writing North and The Centre for the Children's Book, we have developed various short courses open to the public, and created courses for teachers in creative writing.
• The School is running a week long Spring School during the Easter vacation 2008 (April 7th - 11th).
• Numerous creative writing activities are held in the School - we jointly sponsor, with Bloodaxe Books, The Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures.
• We have excellent resources for creative writing, including access to the collection of multi award winning poet, Barry MacSweeney.
• We host, jointly with the University of Durham, The Northern Arts Literary Fellowship, currently held by Colette Bryce.
• Northern Stage fund a post with us in dramaturgy.

One of our great strengths is the sheer number of writers who teach within the School, staff and students alike have achieved much recognition for their work. Read further about our recent and archived news in creative writing.