📚 Exciting News: My book is coming out! 🎉 I'm thrilled to share the news! Living Well with Chronic Illness: Write your own roadmap to healing in tough times is out 12 Sep Pre-order link in bio Thanks to @JessDuffyy @OrionSpring @abirfellows @DHHLitAgency & @TheGoodAgencyUK

Ooh, look Jenny Knight Sylvia Plath liked a high horse too! (From A Life of One's Own by Joanna Biggs)

We want the North East to be known as the home of real opportunity. But right now, too many children are held back, growing up in poverty. Our North East Child Poverty Unit will bring the region together to fight poverty and give every child the opportunity they deserve.

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A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

There's still tickets for this one if anyone in Liverpool fancies watching me jabbering with the great Andy Miller

‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Val McDermid As a writer who grew up in what would be considered a working class household in the NE, and who went to the local comprehensive, this is fantastic! 🥳🎉👏👏👏👏👏

‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England | Newcastle | The Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Congratulations Grace! Thrilled to see this fantastic book reach publication from a graduate of #AWritingChance. This book will help so many people.

Wonderful morning welcoming members of the culture committee of Västra Götaland and the West Sweden Regional Council to New Writing North to follow up some of the great work that we've done with them over the years. Literature crossing boundaries. Thanks NECulture for hosting.

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Very pleased to finally be able to say - it's Publication Day! Black History for Every Day of the Year - written with my siblings Yinka and Kemi Olusoga. 366 stories of people achievements, inventions and events. Out now.

It starts here. We are Bradford. We are the UK City of Culture 2025. Check out the first part of our programme now 💥 🔗 bradford2025.co.uk

Can anyone point me in the direction of playwrights writing about climate change? Or writers that want to? 🙏

Thrilled to see progress on capital work at Bradford's Kala Sangam backed by £5 million last year from the brilliant Department for Culture, Media and Sport Arts Council England #CultureDevelopmentFund as well as major support from Garfield Weston Foundation @heritagefunduk Bradford Council Shanaz Gulzar

FREE taster workshops for Autistic writers: ⏩ 18th September 7 pm, ONLINE ⏩ 23rd September 7.30 pm, ONLINE ⏩ 28th September 11 am, IN PERSON (Nottingham) Come along and find out about our creative writing workshops lead by and for Autistic writers. 🔗bit.ly/BEYONDTS

Manya Wilkinson’s latest novel follows 3 boys on their way to the great market town of Lublin, as they learn that nothing can prepare them for the future... Imagine the film Stand By Me, but set in Tsarist Russia! Hear more at Collected Books Durham on 12 Oct: newwritingnorth.com/event/manya-wi…

I have long admired the trailblazing work of Claire Malcolm and her brilliant team, so I’m delighted to be joining the board as a trustee of New Writing North as it embarks on an exciting new chapter for the #NorthEast.