New Writing North | Channel 4 Northern Talent Network: Script Hubs
bbc.co.uk – Tuesday August 5, 2025
In partnership with Channel 4, New Writing North's Script Hubs provide peer support and networking to writers across the North looking to take their career in TV forward.
Their next application window is open to all writers living in Cumbria and members of the global majority across the North of England.
Over a five-month period, ten writers in each Script Hub collaborate on a series of peer group sessions and professional development workshops. Each group is led by an experienced facilitator writer, with the workshops featuring guest writers, producers, and other broadcast professionals.
Nero New Writers Prize
brunel.ac.uk – Friday August 1, 2025
Brunel University of London and premium coffee house Caffè Nero have jointly opened submissions for the Nero New Writers Prize, a bold new award searching for the best original short stories from unpublished and aspiring writers from the UK and Ireland.
Entries must be an original, unpublished short story of up to 5,000 words in either fiction or non-fiction, and the Prize is open to adults who are citizens of, or resident in, the UK and Ireland.
Submissions will be judged anonymously on the quality of prose and readability by a panel chaired by author and journalist Sophie Elmhirst, winner of the 2024 Nero Gold Prize for Maurice and Maralyn. She is joined by two of Brunel’s Creative Writing faculty, Bernardine Evaristo, bestselling author and Professor of Creative Writing, and novelist and academic Helen Cullen, Reader in Creative Writing.
FlipHTML5 Launches a Novel Writing AI Tool for Innovative Novel Creation
prunderground.com – Wednesday July 30, 2025
FlipHTML5, a leading digital publishing platform, is revolutionizing the creation and telling of stories with its newly launched novel writing AI tool. With this AI-powered solution, authors no longer need to face the normally overwhelming challenge of developing plotlines, creating characters, writing content, or formatting books for publishing by themselves. FlipHTML5’s AI novel generator provides a seamless and intelligent storytelling experience that takes writers from the first spark of an idea to the final step of digital publishing.
The novel writing AI is not just designed to speed up the writing process, it’s designed to enhance the whole reading experience, too. Writers can now develop new concepts, produce entire chapters, edit manuscripts, and publish multimedia-rich, interactive novels that simulate the experience of flipping through an actual printed book. Authors can simply start with a topic idea or use their existing draft, and the AI novel generator will produce a well-structured book complete with layout design in minutes.
Romance Writing Festival
bournemouthecho.co.uk – Wednesday July 30, 2025
One-day festival celebrating romance writing, offering a mix of panel discussions, agent 1-2-1s, workshops, activities and networking opportunities.
Sunday Times bestselling authors Milly Johnson and Paige Toon will headline the inaugural Romance Writing Festival, taking place in Bournemouth on 18th October 2025. They join fellow Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde on an impressive programme featuring award-winning authors, editors, literary agents, and publishers.
The one-day event is dedicated to romance writing, offering a mix of panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities. Attendees can also book one-to-one sessions with agents and editors or take part in free activities designed to inspire writers at all stages of their journey.
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