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.
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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.
The Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry book club, founded by T.S. Eliot and based in Newcastle. Every quarter their selectors choose the best new poetry collections to deliver to their members alongside the PBS Bulletin magazine full of poems, interviews, reviews and offers. See what their Autumn picks are in their guest blog for us.
Founded in Newcastle Gateshead in 2016, Curious Arts celebrates and explores Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture through the arts. In this guest blog post, find out about their current projects as well as the children's books that they'd love to bring to the stage!
Plackitt & Booth Booksellers Ltd are a super successful indie bookshop made up of husband and wife team Alison Plackitt and Patrick Booth. They've been running high profile author events and serving the good folk of Lytham, Lancashire for the last 18 years. Find out about what they've been up to and the books that they're loving at the moment.
As we gear up for the upcoming Durham Book Festival, we're keen to share with you a selection of the books we've been reading, from authors that will be featuring in this year's programme of events. With the darker nights approaching, here are our recommended reads to settle down with.
Creating your own peer network is incredibly important for writers – but how do you get it started? In this post our 2019 Newcastle Writing Conference volunteer Jawwad Mustafa recaps the day and discusses the importance of connections in the writing world.
Our next Read Regional blog is from author Mark Illis. In this post he talks about his journeys to far-flung parts of the north and some of the best parts of his school visits.
Cogito Books is an independent bookshop with a unique and carefully curated collection of titles, beautifully presented in a welcoming and relaxing environment. In this post, find out about what books they love and what they're getting up to in the coming months.
