Category: Durham Book Festival
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Turn Up For The Books 2023: opportunity for 18-25 year-olds based in Co. Durham
Turn Up For The Books is a project designed as part of Durham Book Festival to give young people aged 18-25...
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Preti Taneja wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2022
We were thrilled to award the tenth annual Gordon Burn Prize this evening at Durham Book Festival (Thursday 13 October)...
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Durham Book Festival – tickets now on sale!
We’re thrilled to announce the programme for Durham Book Festival 2022 with headline guests including LJ Ross, Marina Hyde, Jeremy...
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Turn Up For The Books
Turn Up For The Books is a partnership project between New Writing North and English PEN, designed to give young...
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Ruth Clarke appointed as New Writing North and Durham University Translator in Residence
New Writing North and Durham University are delighted to announce that Ruth Clarke has been appointed as the inaugural Translator...
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Hanif Abdurraqib wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2021
We are thrilled to announce that the poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib has won the Gordon Burn Prize...
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Durham Book Festival 2021 begins
The North East’s biggest book festival is back with a bursting programme of both IN-PERSON and ONLINE events with headline...
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Turn Up For The Books
Turn Up For The Books is a partnership project between New Writing North, English PEN and the Women’s Prize Trust,...
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Longlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2021
The longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021 has been announced, as selected by chair of the judges, author Denise Mina; writer and poet...
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Peter Pomerantsev wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2020
This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev has won the Gordon Burn Prize 2020. The literary prize is open to books...
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Less than 2 weeks until Durham Book Festival begins!
There are less than two weeks to go until our first ever Durham Book Festival. Wherever you live, stay at...
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Durham Book Festival Reviewers in Residence 2020
Apply now for Reviewers in Residence – New Writing North’s journalism programme for young writers aged 15–23. Each year, New...