Welcome to the Blog North Awards.

The Blog North Awards are new for 2012. They celebrate the best of Northern England’s independent publishing, and aim to bring some of the great new writing being published online to a wider audience.

Our awards evening event took place on 17 October at Manchester’s Deaf Institute. Here are the results:

Best Arts and Culture Blog

The winner: A Negative Narrative

The runner up: Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second

Best City or Neighbourhood Blog

The Winner: Sevenstreets

The runner up: Unicycle Emptiness

Best Food and Drink Blog

The winner: Around the World in Eighty Bakes

The runner up: Squidbeak

Best Personal Blog

The winner: Her First Year

The runner up: A Different View

Best Specialist Blog

The winner: The Magic Square Foundation

The runner up: Fontilan

Best Writing

The winner: The Most Difficult Thing Ever

The runner up: Tiffers At: Otherwise I’ll Forget

Best Young Blogger

The winner is: A tie between Considerate Trespassing and Every Second Song

The runner up: Celluloid Wickerman

Click here to view the full shortlist for 2012.

The Blog North Awards will return in 2013 – watch this space!