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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The Making of Recovery Songs
17 October 2019 by
When I slowly began to get well from a crippling mental illness that led to a chronic drug and alcohol...
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What working on Stitched taught me about young people
30 September 2019 by
Stitched: A Hip Hopera has been an incredibly special project to work on, and one that I feel privileged to...
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The North Recommends: ABC Book Club
19 September 2019 by
We started our book club, ABC, about 21 years ago in Horsforth, Leeds. Our children were all at primary school...
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Interview with Okechukwu Nzelu
19 September 2019 by
Nnenna Maloney is a teenage girl juggling friendships, school and sex. But as she approaches womanhood she also wants to...
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The North Recommends: Bloodaxe Books
19 September 2019 by
Neil Astley founded Bloodaxe Books in 1978 to give a platform to emerging new poets, many from the North of...
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The North Recommends: The Poetry Book Society
19 September 2019 by
The Poetry Book Society’s Autumn Selections are among our most striking yet. Spanning across the globe from US legend Jericho...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Verbena White on winning a Northern Writers’ Award
Writing is something I’ve always done. However, poetry was something I saw as almost pretentious; perhaps because back then I...
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NWC 2019: Building your web
20 June 2019 by
Newcastle Writing Conference was back! After being held at Northumbria University since 2013, it took over Live Theatre by the...
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Read Regional: The 10 Best Things To Do in X
19 June 2019 by
When I think about my novels I sometimes imagine them sinking slowly, or not so slowly, into a great dark...
