Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts
Home of creative writing, literary events, teaching and research in Newcastle and the North East.
Greetings in 2026!
Welcome to our fresh new series of specially curated, exciting NCLA events, bringing you the best minds working in poetry, fiction, and literary thinking about our world today. Including art criticism duo, The White Pube, the Poetry Book Society's Spring Choice poets, and this year's PEN Annual lecture in association with English PEN and New Writing North, which will be delivered by award-winning author Max Porter.
For more information and tickets for the PEN Lecture, and registration for our free events which are always open to all members of the University and the public, please carry on browsing below.
This semester we have a temporary new home in the Curtis Auditorium and an earlier start time of 6pm.
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 the worldwide bestseller The Ministry of Time, and CD Rose, winner of the 2025 Goldsmith's Prize, in conversation with the School of English's leading academics and writers.
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