Category: Durham Book Festival
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INTERVIEW: Kirsty Wark
12 October Gala Theatre Interviewer: Julia Coyle Our Reviewer in Residence, Julia Coyle, interviews journalist and novelist Kirsty Wark at...
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INTERVIEW: Selina Todd and Kerry Hudson
12 October St Nic’s Church Izzy Duffy-Cross Having read Selina Todd and Kerry Hudson’s work, I was enormously excited by...
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Review: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Cocktails with Capote and Breakfast at Tiffany’s screening
11 October Gala Theatre Screen 2 Charlotte Hall Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott certainly knows how to grab the attention of her audience....
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Andrew Michael Hurley on his residency in Wadi Faynan, Jordan
Andrew Michael Hurley took part in Alta’ir, the Durham-Amman creative exchange, for which he spent two weeks on a writing...
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Coast of Contradictions by Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous undertook a writing residency on the Durham coast with poet Phoebe Power, as part of the People’s Landscape...
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David Keenan wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2019
We are thrilled to announce David Keenan’s novel For The Good Times as the winner of the Gordon Burn Prize...
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Phoebe Power on the People’s Landscape commission
During my residency at the Durham coast I spoke to children, ex-miners, artists, cyclists, rockpoolers and rangers. I walked the...
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INTERVIEW: Sarah Watson
Interview by Bessie Yuill If the first rule of fiction is “write what you know”, then the playwright Sarah Watson’s...
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The Infinite Cold is coming to Durham
Anna Clarkson talks about her experience of writing THE INFINITE COLD and the help she had from Elva, a time...
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We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work at Durham Book Festival 2019!
The festival runs between 5-13 October 2019, and features a host of prominent writers, poets and thinkers such as Colm...
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Durham Book Festival 2019: open call for commissions
Durham Book Festival invites proposals from writers for creative commissions to be premiered at the 2019 Durham Book Festival (5-...
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“Durham” the Saint in “Dun Holme”
In 2018, Durham Book Festival hosted the inaugural Durham-Jordan Creative Exchange: Alta’ir. Alta’ir means bird, and is the Arabic name for...