Category: Durham Book Festival
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...
How to watch our Digital Events
This year Durham Book Festival offers a hybrid programme of live and digital events. We also have a range of...
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...
Programme announced for Durham Book Festival 2021
Durham Book Festival returns this October with an exciting blend of live and digital events, including headline guests Lemn Sissay,...
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,...
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...
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...
INTERVIEW: Linda France, Murmuration
14th October 2020 Interview conducted by Heather Craddock Murmuration, a collaborative poem about the place of nature in coping...
Digital Events: FAQs
Producing Durham Book Festival 2020 digitally has been a learning experience for all of us here at New Writing North...
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...
Durham Book Festival 2020 Programme Reveal!
Durham Book Festival 2020 Online is here! We’re so excited to share some of the books that will be featuring...
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...
