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.
Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe 2017) was a perfect book to look at in the first of this year’s Climate Reading Group sessions – powerful, multi-layered, provocative and ultimately restorative. This report is my attempt to give a fair account of what was a wide-ranging and wonderfully penetrating discussion to share with those people who participated and those who were unable to attend.
Katy Massey recalls her experiences of inequality as a journalist, and argues for the importance of increasing the breadth of perspectives in the media industries through A Writing Chance.
Darling Reads is a gorgeous bookshop in Horbury, Wakefield, which recently won National Book Tokens 'Newcomer of the Year 2021' award. In this blog post, owners Laura and Asher tell us about the difficulties of opening a bookshop during a pandemic and the books they're currently loving.
ZunTold publishes novels and poetry to support children, young people and adults with their mental health. Here, they tell us about some of the exciting things they've published, as well as some upcoming projects and publications.
Will rounds up some of the best new poetry from the North.
New year, new books! Here at NWN, we started off 2021 with some great reads that got us through yet another lockdown. Read on to find out about the books we're currently loving.
In this interview we talk to Northern Writers' Awards winner Tawseef Khan about his new book The Muslim Problem and accompanying podcast Muslim, Actually.
Daily Mirror columnist Paul Routledge offers advice on writing your application for A Writing Chance
In this post, Northern Writers' Award winner Kit Fan delves into his experience of winning and how this helped him on his journey to publication.
In this interview we talk to J. A Mensah about her debut novel and inaugural winner of the NorthBound Book Award, Castles from Cobwebs.
As is our custom, we're finishing the year with a round-up of the books we most enjoyed reading in 2020.
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