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Claire Malcolm

Campaign to introduce North East readers to regional writers

WANT to learn more about North East authors? Claire Malcolm from New Writing North introduces a project that aims to introduce North East readers to regional writers.Read

Rebecca Jenkins

Justice at last for detective series

AUTHOR and cultural historian Rebecca Jenkins has realised a dream to be at the helm of her own Regency detective series. She tells Sam Wonfor the story so far.Read

Political fight was backdrop for my story

MICHAEL CAWOOD GREEN is a reader in creative writing at Northumbria University and the recent winner of a prestigious literary prize.Read

From motherhood to belonging in life

CAROLYN Jess-Cooke talks to Barbara Hodgson about the poetry collection that proved the first step in her literary career.Read

Wise woman's life in religious war

POET Bob Beagrie answers David Whetstone's questions about The Seer Sung Husband, which was inspired by a visit to Old Mother Shipton's Cave in North Yorkshire.Read

This comedy-writing lark's a very serious business

STEVE Chambers, senior lecturer (script), on Northumbria University's MA in Creative Writing, abolishes the idea of the working writer in his ivory tower.Read

Poems spring from snapshots of youth

IN her poetry collection Background Music, Cynthia Fuller harmoniously orchestrates personal histories, relationships and landscapes, as Tamzin Lewis writes.Read

Plant life provided the seed of inspiration

DAN SMITH, a graduate of the MA creative writing course at Northumbria University, explains the inspiration for his first novel, Dry Season.Read

My step into uncharted waters

DELVING into the past for inspiration offered author Janette Jenkins a new writing process, as well as new book, of course. Sam Wonfor talks to her.Read

Degree gave us chance to follow our dreams

TWO final-year undergraduates on the BA (Hons) English literature and creative writing course at Northumbria University share their thoughts.Read

Making sense of world through her poetry

A LYRICAL new collection of poetry by Linda France is influenced by a horse-riding accident, Capability Brown and her mother's leek pudding, she tells Tamzin Lewis.Read

A reader's story

I'VE had various enthusiastic phases for reading, which made my book collection a bit dated.Read

Tale of life behind bars

DEBUT novelist Kachi A Ozumba, from Nigeria, tells David Whetstone about his emergence as a talented writer in the North East.Read

An honest earner from life of crime

BARBARA HODGSON speaks to the creator of an arresting first novel.Read

Students in Africa hungry for learning

PAULINE Hughes lecturer in creative writing at Northumbria University, is forging links with West Africa.Read

Read Regional events

READ Regional events taking place from May - November 2010.Read