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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What we’re reading: Summer edition
14 June 2019 by
Claire Malcolm I’ve read some excellent books so far this year and would like to particularly recommend White Tears by Hari Kunzru...
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Read Regional: Connections
12 June 2019 by
“It seems there’s a sense of disconnect between you and your father.” I’m in South Shields at The Word, and...
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Read Regional: Nature on the Road
03 June 2019 by
My Read Regional events began with a visit to Darlington Library. Working with the library’s reading group, it was an...
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Rich Seams: Exploring the New Poetry of the North
23 May 2019 by
When I was first invited by Durham University and New Writing North to be the laureate of Durham Book Festival...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: The Sid Chaplin Award
17 May 2019 by
In the early months of 1941 – the darkest time of the Second World War – a young pitman took...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: Julie Noble
17 May 2019 by
A single parent, struggling to rebuild her life, can start to take control if she holds a pen. Writing has...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: Why Can’t You Just Write?
17 May 2019 by
“Why can’t you just write?” – my housemate asked, trying not to look at the stack of maimed pages on...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: Interning at NWN
16 May 2019 by
Growing up I didn’t feel defined by my class, and was even unaware of it at times. I had free...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: Shaun Wilson
14 May 2019 by
I was delivering post in a quiet estate in Houghton when I got the email. My piece had been accepted...
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Working Class Writers’ Week: Louise Powell
14 May 2019 by
“Good children don’t write about dog racing,” my primary school teacher told me sternly. She’d just read an account of...
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Read Regional: Life as a full-time author
10 May 2019 by
There’s one element of being a full-time author I’ve never entirely become used to, even after fourteen years and eleven...
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Publishing with Faber & Faber
12 April 2019 by
On 28 March, New Writing North accompanied 10 young people on a trip to Faber & Faber in London. In...