From 16 March to 28 April 2021, Litfest ran an exciting pilot project — ‘New Writing Northwest’ — a series of workshops in four genres for emerging writers based in the Northwest region. The genres were: Fiction (led by Yvonne Battle-Felton), Nature & Environment Writing (led by Karen Lloyd), Poetry (led by Kim Moore) and Translation (led by Daniel Hahn).

You can download a free copy of our digital anthology below, which showcases the works created by our workshop participants. We’ll leave the workshop leaders’ introductions, and the talent of these writers to speak for the success of the programme.

The New Writing Northwest project was supported by funding from Arts Council England.