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New Writing North is the writing development agency for the north east of England (the area covered by Arts Council England, North East). We aim to create an environment in the north east of England in which new writing in all forms can flourish and develop. We are a unique organisation within the UK, merging as we do individual development work with writers across all media with educational work and the production of creative projects. We work with writers to develop career opportunities, new commissions, projects, residencies, publications and live events.

We work in partnership with a broad range of organisations, universities, local authorities, regional development agencies, sponsors and media producers to develop opportunities for writers in our region.

We manage the Northern Writers' Awards and support writers at all stages of their careers by career mentoring and by the creation of professional development training initiatives and projects.

We work in partnership with writers, theatres and producers to develop new writing for the stage and have initiated work and new commissions with many of the theatre companies in our region and helped to set up many initiatives and new posts.

Though our international work we aspire to create partnerships and projects for writers from our region with international counterparts.

We run a wide-ranging education and community programme which involves the development of creative projects with writers and young people both inside and outside of schools. We also train writers to work with young people and our writers in schools programme works with individual schools, Education Action Zones and Creative Partnership Programmes to undertake innovative work with young people.

We also publish writing from young people and the community, playtexts, fiction and poetry.