Category: Durham Book Festival
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New commission captures sound of carbon
A unique new musical commission which captures the sound of a coal mine premieres this autumn. The piece – Ancestral...
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Durham Book Festival is back for 2024!
Drum roll please… The programme for Durham Book Festival 2024 is here. A starry literary line-up will descend on the...
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New Writing North announces Autumn Programme
New Writing North has unveiled its packed programme of literary events, community-led writing groups, and professional industry workshops this autumn....
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Toby Jones brings St Cuthbert to Durham in Benjamin Myers’ Cuddy
Durham Book Festival in partnership with Live Theatre present a world-exclusive dramatic live reading from Benjamin Myers’ acclaimed novel, Cuddy, performed...
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Durham Book Festival is back! Programme announced for three-day festival in Durham City and online this October
We’re thrilled to share the programme for Durham Book Festival 2023! Taking place at Gala Durham, Clayport Library and Collected...
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Discover our Autumn Season
Our autumn programme is here – and it’s bigger than ever. There have never been more ways for readers and...
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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...
