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The North Recommends: Curious Arts
19 September 2019 by
Founded in Newcastle Gateshead in 2016, Curious Arts celebrates and explores Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture through the...
The North Recommends: Plackitt & Booth
19 September 2019 by
We’re Plackitt & Booth Booksellers Ltd – Lytham, Lancashire, a super successful indie running high profile author events and serving...
What we’re reading: Autumn edition
19 September 2019 by
Charlotte Ramshaw – The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Naomi Wood’s The Hiding Game...
Writing Durham
02 August 2019 by
Writing Durham: Ben Myers
02 August 2019 by
An interview with Durham born author Benjamin Myers, as he walks around his childhood home in Belmont.
A Room of One’s Own: Kerry Hudson and Suzanne Moore
02 August 2019 by
Phoebe Power on the People’s Landscape commission
02 August 2019 by
Coast of Contradictions by Katrina Porteous
02 August 2019 by
The People’s Landscape on the Durham Coast: Phoebe Power and Katrina Porteous
02 August 2019 by
Durham Book Festival in partnership with the National Trust, commissioned the poets Phoebe Power and Katrina Porteous to undertake a writing residency exploring a stretch of the Durham Coastline between Seaham and Horden.
Kafa al-Zoubi: A Walk Through Durham
02 August 2019 by
Jordanian writer Kafa al-Zoubi took part in Alta’ir, the 2019 Durham-Amman creative exchange. She spent two weeks in Durham on a writing residency at St Aidan’s College, Durham.
Jasmine Simms and Lily Arnold: Kingdoms
02 August 2019 by
Kingdoms explores the idea of buildings and spaces as ‘autonomous’, imbued with their own memory and consciousness. What does it mean to have lived in a place? In the end, do the places we occupy begin to occupy us?
Marcus Hammerschmitt: General Wonder
02 August 2019 by
In 2019 Durham Book Festival, supported by the British Council, commissioned Marcus to spend ten days exploring Durham and to write about his impressions of our region.
