Our Balance the Books project launched at the start of this year, and since then we have had amazing reviews from readers in our Young Writers' groups and our partnered schools. The project encourages young people to read for pleasure by introducing them to a brilliant range of titles by writers from underrepresented backgrounds.
Now it's time for the team at NWN to let you know what they're reading from our Balance the Books shelf!
Each quarter, Senior Programme Manager Will Mackie blogs about some of the best new and recent work by poets in the North. In this post, he looks at the collections published in Spring 2022.
York Literature Festival returns for 2022! In this blog post, chairman of the festival Rob O'Connor reveals some of this year's highlights.
Many of us our wondering how we can support the people of Ukraine at this terrible time. Independent publishers Bluemoose Books and Little Toller have come together to create a fundraising campaign that will directly support displaced children. In this blog post, Kevin Duffy from Bluemoose explains more.
Anna Disley, New Writing North’s Executive Director, Programme and Impact, considers how relationships underpin our work, especially when it comes to diversity and inclusivity.
Northern Writers' Award-winner Amy Stewart recounts what she has learnt under the mentorship of author Catherine Menon, and the impact this experience has had on her writing life.
Last term NWN Young Writers worked with the Stephen Spender Trust, the National Centre for Writing and CommaPress to deliver the Multilingual Creators project at Excelsior Academy.
And Other Stories is a not-for-profit press based in Sheffield that aims to push people’s reading limits and help them discover authors of adventurous and inspiring writing. Read about some of their recent and upcoming publishing highlights.
As we come to the end of 2021, it's time to roundup our reading year. We asked our staff here at NWN for their Book of the Year, as well as a book that's on their Christmas list.
