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What We’re Reading: Summer Edition
21 June 2021 by
The NWN staff are looking forward to some great summer reads! Find out about the books we’re taking on our...
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Young Writers Recommend
21 June 2021 by
Kitty The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes – It’s not easy being the sole heiress to a billionaire’s almost...
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Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writing
21 June 2021 by
Introduction Open submissions to Test Signal closed on 6 February 2020. On 16 March, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, began...
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The North Recommends: Fly on the Wall Press
21 June 2021 by
Fly on the Wall Press is a social enterprise company and a not-for-profit publisher, based in Manchester. We publish innovative...
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The North Recommends: The Bound
21 June 2021 by
The Bound is a new independent bookshop in Whitley Bay, opened earlier this year by Helen Stanton from Forum Books....
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Audio Archive: Durham Book Festival
16 June 2021 by
Podcasts from the Durham Book Festival, showcasing some of the highlights of our unmissable annual programmes.
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Climate Reading Group: Letters to the Earth
15 June 2021 by
Climate Reading Group Tuesday 8th June 2021 Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis (William Collins 2019) Linda...
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New Narratives for the North East
09 June 2021 by
Through interview, extracts of their work and the varied sounds of the region, fifteen writers seek to capture what defines the North East and the people who live there.
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Young Writers’ Review… Dead [Women] Poets Society Not in Newcastle
20 May 2021 by
We were delighted to be invited by the Dead [Women] Poets Society to review their Not in Newcastle online event...
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Between Two Islands: writing by the Bahraini community in Britain
30 April 2021 by
The Between Two Islands anthology is the culmination of poetry workshops held with the Bahraini community in Britain. Published in...
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Climate Reading Group: reflections on Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit
29 April 2021 by
Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe 2017) was a perfect book to look at in the first of this year’s...
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Why A Writing Chance is the positive intervention the media needs
24 March 2021 by
The media has always been a competitive industry, so there are always far more candidates than jobs. This is understandable,...