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Every year from March until June we celebrate books from twelve brilliant northern writers with our Read Regional campaign. Our authors are visiting libraries, festivals and schools all across the north, with over 80 events taking place this year. We decided to each get our teeth into one of the Read Regional books - find out what we thought of them in this blog post.
Bluemoose Books is an independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Kevin and Hetha Duffy started Bluemoose in 2006, and are passionate about discovering writers from different backgrounds who have their own stories to tell.
The Northern Young Adult Literary Festival is a brilliant festival ran by UCLAN dedicated to bringing the publishing industry, books and authors to young adult fans across the North of England on 16 March 2019. In this this post we have reviews of some of their featured festival books from the students who help run the festival.
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. Find their spring picks in this blog.
When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. Having grown up seemingly a world away, in working-class Sunderland, London is a city alive with pop up bars and neon lights. Yet Lucy’s transition to a new life is more overwhelming than she could have expected. In this interview author Jessica Andrews tells us about own experiences of leaving the north and how important working class voices are.
Sam Read’s opened in Grasmere in 1887. The proprietor Sam Read ran it until his death in 1919, when his daughter Helen Read continued the business. From 1950 it passed out of the family to a succession of four owners. The present owner, Elaine Nelson, has been in charge since 2000. Find out what books they love at the minute here.
Durham Book Group is a wonderfully diverse mix of people, interested in reading and discussing a varied range of literature and poetry; from contemporary fiction to classic novels and taking in biography, poetry, travel writing and non-fiction. Find out what they've been reading lately in this post.
In 2018 the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship was awarded to Caroline Hawkridge from Cheshire. Inspired by Julia’s First Aid Kit for the Mind and her love of travel, Caroline used the Fellowship to return to Zimbabwe for the first time since her family left 50 years ago.
In January 2019 Laura McKenzie completed a 10 month paid Festivals and Events internship at New Writing North, she reflects on her experience here.
In this brilliant article Phil O’Brien explores the complexities of Gordon Burn as a writer and his excellent collection of work.
Poet and Northern Writers' Awards winner Kate Davis gives us some great advice on why applying and taking the plunge is always worthwhile.
Shelley Day Sclater, winner of the 2011 Andrea Badenoch Award, discusses how the award impacted her life and career as a writer.
