The NWN Journal is a place for us to share insights from across our work, as well as for writers from the North to share the ideas that interest them.
This year NWN Young Writers worked with Larkspur Primary School exploring the theme of bravery. Find out more about the project and watch the films we produced with the students.
In our second meeting back we are up to seven attendees, and discussed another book which split the group. Shaun Bythell owns and runs The Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, and this book details his experiences.
We discussed The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen, who is a prize-winning and bestselling Norwegian author that some of us had not come across before. The book concerns the now vanished way of life of a family who scrape a subsistence living on a tiny island off the coast of Norway in the early 20th century.
Claire Malcolm describes the action we have taken in the last 2 years to address the pressing global issue of the Climate Emergency.
Nicola Liu is a writer and editor and a member of the Climate Reading Group. The group met in September 2021 to talk about Gigantic Cinema. Here is Nicola’s review of this anthology of weather.
Climate Writer-in-Residence Linda France reports on her experiences and observations from Glasgow during COP26.
With Durham Book Festival fast approaching, our TBR and currently reading lists are filling up with fantastic books from the festival. Read here to find out the books we're currently loving as well as the ones we can't wait to read, and make sure to visit the DBF website to see the full programme!
As Northern poets continue to produce amazing work, Will Mackie continues to read it. Here is Will's roundup of some of his favourite new poetry from the North.
In this interview we talk to John D. Rutter about his new novel Approval, which won the Northbound Book Award 2020 and was consequently published by Saraband in August 2021.
Fox & Windmill Books is an independent publisher founded and based in the industrial city of Bradford, focused on publishing British South Asian writers. Hear from founder Habiba Desai about where their company name came from, what their main goals are and some of the exciting things they're working on.
Truman Books is a brand new bookshop that opened in Farsley, West Leeds in June 2021. Founder Amanda Truman tells us about what it's been like opening a bookshop, the kind of books the community is enjoying, and the reads she's excited to have on the shelves right now.
Find out about I Welcome the Hurdles, a collaborative dance and poetry project with NWN Young Writers and Gateway Studio.
