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.
Find out about I Welcome the Hurdles, a collaborative dance and poetry project with NWN Young Writers and Gateway Studio.
Sophie tells us about Lockdown Lives, an animated poem made by Kay Greyson and the young people at Denton Youth and Community Centre.
NWN's poetry expert Will rounds up some of his favourite new and recent releases from poets in the North.
The NWN staff are looking forward to some great summer reads! Find out about the books we're taking on our summer holidays – whether we're taking the chance to travel, or soaking up the rays from our gardens.
Our brilliant Young Writers share some of the books they've been loving recently.
Get a taster of what the Test Signal is about by reading Nathan Connolly's introduction and 2 sample pieces: Not My Usual Practice by Tricia Cresswell, and Doorstep Pictures by J.A. Mensah.
Fly on the Wall Press is a not-for-profit publisher and social enterprise company based in Manchester, who publish innovative short stories, poetry and photography books on pressing issues. Find out what they're all about, what they've been publishing recently, and the events they've got coming up.
the bound is a new independent bookshop in Whitley Bay, opened earlier this year by Helen Stanton from Forum Books. Read on for some great book recommendations from staff members James, Emma and Craig.
In this post, climate reading group member Romi Jones gives us a recap and account of our most recent session on Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis.
We were delighted to be invited by the Dead [Women] Poets Society to review their Not in Newcastle online event on Sunday 11 April 2021. Two of our young writers, Ellen Waters and India Hunter, took up the opportunity.
Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe 2017) was a perfect book to look at in the first of this year’s Climate Reading Group sessions – powerful, multi-layered, provocative and ultimately restorative. This report is my attempt to give a fair account of what was a wide-ranging and wonderfully penetrating discussion to share with those people who participated and those who were unable to attend.
