Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts
Home of creative writing, literary events, teaching and research in Newcastle and the North East.
NCLA is currently on hiatus while we prepare to re-launch our free public events series in Spring 2026. Watch this space for updates on our programme featuring the best practitioners of the literary arts working today, and for an exciting announcement about the PEN Annual lecture 2026, in association with English PEN and New Writing North. We look forward to welcoming you back, and thank you for all your support of NCLA.
Missing us? You can watch hundreds of our past events free online at the NCLA Archive including recent talks with Leila Aboulela, winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, Kaliane Bradley, author of this year's worldwide romantic science fiction bestseller The Ministry of Time, and Mike McCormack, contemporary Modernist master, and winner of the Goldsmith's Prize, in conversation with the School of English's leading academics and writers.
Enjoy - and see you soon!
Preti Taneja, Director, NCLA
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