The NWN Journal is a place for us to share insights from across our work, as well as for writers from the North to share the ideas that interest them.
The Blue House Bookshop is an independent children's bookshop which opened in October 2019. Situated in Bootham, they stock lovely collection of books to encourage and cultivate the love of reading in children and families. In this guest blog post, they share with us a few of their favourite recently published children’s books.
Manchester-based not-for-profit publishing initiative, Comma Press, have been championing short stories from northern cities ever since they formed in 2003. In this guest blog post, they introduce their upcoming anthology The Book of Newcastle, to be released on 16 January 2020.
Alfred Bar Book Club began back in 2017 in a quirky little bar called Alfred, in a small suburb of Leeds. The group, formed by local author June Taylor and then bar manager Harriet Earle, meets monthly and aims to support local authors. Find out more about them in our guest article.
With the festive season in full swing and 2020 nearly upon us, here at New Writing North we’ve been getting nostalgic and looking back through our book shelves to pick out some of our favourite reads of this year. Get cosy whilst you scroll through our Books of the Year 2019.
The Poetry Book Society has been inspiring generations of poets and poetry fans since 1953. In 2016 they moved to Newcastle to join Inpress and have continued to promote the fantastic work of both established and emerging poets worldwide. In this guest blog, they share their Poetry Book Society Gift Guide, full of festive favourites with a Northern twist, and 10% off for Northern Bookshelf readers.
Waterstones Bookshop Durham is perfectly placed right at the heart of Durham's beautiful city centre, with walks along the river Wear and the iconic Durham Cathedral just a stone's throw from their doorstep. In this guest feature post, staff members Kat and Fiona share with us some of the books they’re really excited about at the moment.
Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatised and sickened selves in fiction and film. In this interview, Jenn Ashworth, tells us about the inspiration behind her book, the difficult subjects which it covers, and taking on a different style of novel.
Recovery Songs is published by Valley Press in October 2019. Here writer Ralph Dartford tells us how the collection was made.
Laura Lindow is the writer and director of Stitched: A Hip-Hopera, a musical theatre production co-created with young people from New Writing North's Young Writers' City programme. In this blog post, she describes the impart the project had on her own work.
ABC is a book group based in Leeds. It’s been meeting for 21 years, since the group's children were at primary school together. They still meet every 6 weeks or so, each taking it in turn to host the meeting in their home. In this post, Julie and Carol tell us about some of their favourite reads over the years.
In this interview, Northern Writers’ Awards winner and this year's Durham Book Festival guest Okechukwu Nzelu, talks about his new book The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney. He discusses coming of age experiences, his Northern roots and his motivation to tell stories such as Nnenna's.
Neil Astley founded Bloodaxe Books in 1978 to give a platform to emerging new poets, many from the North of England. Over four decades it has revolutionised poetry publishing: challenging the male Oxbridge domination of poetry in the 80s, and later taking contemporary poetry to a much broader readership. Renowned for quality and diversity, Bloodaxe has been a pioneering publisher of women poets and BAME writers.
