Blog Posts
Interviews, stories and useful advice: our blog is regularly updated with a broad range of new articles to read, including content from our Northern Bookshelf quarterly newsletter.
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Recent Poetry from the North
15 March 2021 by
I’m looking forward to reading Michael Symmons Roberts’ eighth collection Ransom (Cape). A masterful poet who explores expansive landscapes in...
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What We’re Reading: Spring Edition
15 March 2021 by
New year, new books! Here at NWN, we started off 2021 with some great reads that got us through yet...
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Interview with Tawseef Khan
15 March 2021 by
I’ve read that you’ve been formulating the idea for The Muslim Problem for a few years. Was there a particular...
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Get Typing and Delete the Rubbish Stuff Later
25 February 2021 by
Daily Mirror columnist Paul Routledge offers advice on writing your application for A Writing Chance There is no big secret...
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My Publication Story
13 January 2021 by
Winning a Northern Writers’ Award has changed my writing life. As a published poet, I didn’t have a lot of...
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Interview with J.A. Mensah, author of Castles from Cobwebs
14 December 2020 by
In this interview we talk to J. A Mensah about her debut novel and inaugural winner of the NorthBound Book...
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NWN’s Books of the Year 2020
11 December 2020 by
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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The North Recommends: Publishers Picks
10 December 2020 by
Zoe Turner, Comma Press Cat Step by Alison Irvine (Dead Ink) follows single mother Liz who has moved to her recently...
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Creativity in Lockdown: Write Outside
01 December 2020 by
With the nights drawing in and Christmas lights twinkling, it’s hard to remember back to summer 2020, but it did...
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How to write the perfect letter to a literary agent
27 November 2020 by
Rufus Purdy, an editor and tutor on the forthcoming Write Here… Online novel-writing course, explains how to write the perfect...
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New Narratives for the North East | Commissioned Writing
Early in 2020, fifteen writers were commissioned to create new work about the North East in an ambitious project from...
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Climate Reading Group: Ledger
22 September 2020 by
Ledger by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe 2020) By her own account, Jane Hirshfield’s latest collection Ledger is ‘a book of stock-taking, a registration...
