Read, Watch & Listen
My experience planning and chairing an event for Turn Up For The Books 2022
15 November 2022 by
Turn Up For The Books participant Nalini Ram-Prasad tells us about her experience chairing an event for Durham Book Festival in 2022.
SoulFood: A Film from REfUSE Café
11 November 2022 by
REfUSE is a pay-as-you-feel community café that works to reduce food waste. Working with filmmaker Nick Whitworth and producer Emily Wiseman, the café community have co-created a film showcasing the ground-breaking environmental work and culture of the café.
The New Great Britons
11 November 2022 by
In 2002, the BBC ran a campaign to find the Greatest Briton. 20 years on, this partnership project with Durham University’s Dr Natalie Mears is a series of short films with leading university researchers, each advocating for ‘great Britons’ they feel have been overlooked by history.
In my element: A year of listening to the climate
10 November 2022 by
Kiersten Murray-Borbjerg, a disabled artist and aspiring writer based in North Shields, reflects upon her experience attending Linda France’s monthly Listening to the Climate podcast discussion group.
My experience taking part in Turn Up For The Books 2022
07 November 2022 by
Turn Up For The Books participant Jemima D’Souza tells us about her experience as a Young Programmer in 2022.
Startling | a poetry film
21 October 2022 by
To celebrate the publication of Linda France's tenth poetry collection - influenced by her three years of writing the climate - artist Kate Sweeney has created a new film responding to Linda's words.
Yours Sincerely: The Climate Letters
11 October 2022 by
An online showcase of Linda France's Yours Sincerely installation, including some of the letters, artwork and commissioned pieces that were part of the project.
Researching Common People
20 September 2022 by
As part of a decade-long partnership between New Writing North and Northumbria University, Katherine Stanton is researching contemporary writing by and about the working classes, read about Katherine’s research here.
What We’re Reading: Durham Book Festival 2022 Edition
16 September 2022 by
Durham Book Festival is just around the corner which means it's time for the staff at NWN to share their most anticipated reads from the festival! Find out what books we're currently loving as well as the ones we can't wait to read.
The North Recommends: Nightjar Press
16 September 2022 by
Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors.
The North Recommends: Collected Bookshop
16 September 2022 by
Durham city centre has a brand new independent bookshop! Owner Emma tells us more...
Startling: Interview with Linda France
15 September 2022 by
As Linda France nears the end of her climate-writing residency with New Writing North and Newcastle University, we asked her to talk about the work which has come out of the experience.
