Young Writers in the News

Posted: Tue 21 May 2013

New online magazine known as 'Cuckoo Review' is being launched under New Writing North. Read more...

Posted: Thu 18 Apr 2013

Young authors come out on top at this years London Book Fair  Read more...

Posted: Mon 4 Feb 2013

Speaking at the launch of the 2013 Laureate Education Project, Carol Ann Duffy said: “Differences in language or culture are often considered to be barriers to communication but the language of poetry is spoken all over the world and all cultures have their own poets and poetry. " Read more...

Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2012

Alex James used Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and Kindle Direct Publishing to get my first book in print and on Kindle. Did it work?  Read more...

Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2012

27-year-old Joel Dicker this year threw the publishing world into a scramble for rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with his second published novel being touted as the next global phenomenon. Read more...

Posted: Tue 2 Oct 2012

With over 7000 entries, the 2012 Young Poets of the Year Award has set a new benchmark for the competition, illuminating the growing popularity of poetry amongst young people.  Read more...

Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2012

There are so many aphorisms about writing I will co-sign. “Writing is rewriting.” “You have to collect a lot of pink slips if you want to be a real writer.” “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair” Read more...

Posted: Wed 1 Aug 2012

We are challenging you to write your own mini anthology of poems this August! To help you, every two days poet Jon Stone will set a new challenge on the Young Poets Network site to spark off a new poem. Read more...

Posted: Mon 30 Jul 2012

FastPencil hopes that the offering will help set it apart from free self-publishing platforms like Amazon’s KDP Read more...

Posted: Thu 26 Jul 2012

OSX Mountain Lion is now available, and so are updates for Safari and iTunes University Read more...