Vale Jan Dean Jan Dean, Newcastle writer and artist, has died. She was a life-member and former president of Poetry at the Pub.  She had been involved in that group since 1997. Prizes & Accolades Jan won the 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award for her prose poem ‘Fish Flops and Flaps’ published … More Vale Jan Dean: Writer, Artist and Former President of Poetry at the Pub