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Writer's Block North East Taster Workshop at The Word

A free taster session for aspiring novelists, introducing Writer's Block North East's year-long development programme.

Saturday, 21 November 202610:15 AM - 12:15 PMThe Word, National Centre for the Written Word, 45 Market Place, South Shields, NE33 1JFFree, booking requiredby Writer's Block North East

About This Event

Led by Laura and James of Writer's Block North East, this session is for anyone who wants to write a novel, and aims to send people home full of ideas and motivated to keep going. It also introduces the organisation's year-long programme of workshops, mentoring, author masterclasses and meetings with literary agents, which has 14 places, four of them reserved for working-class writers. The workshop is free but places are limited; book by emailing wbne2020@gmail.com.

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