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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Read Regional book review: The Lost Art of Sinking by Naomi Booth
01 March 2017 by
Dawn Tindle runs Book and Brew, which is a blog for readers, writers and book lovers. Throughout March she is our...
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Lines of Thought… It’s Never Dull in Hull
27 February 2017 by
It makes you think, all this culture business. And it is a business. A report early last year estimated that...
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Back to Ours
20 February 2017 by
You’re throwing a party. One that’s going to make such a splash that everyone wants to be on the guest...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
17 February 2017 by
After January’s atmospheric trip to the North West of England, this month we were off to sunnier climes – Naples...
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‘Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately…’: Dealing with rejection
13 February 2017 by
Becky Orwin runs a blog, The Rejection Box, chronicling her ongoing quest to get her first novel published. In 2017...
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Made in Hull
07 February 2017 by
Short story writer Sue Wilsea is this month’s blogger-in-residence. She was born in Portsmouth and for the last 20 years...
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Parents’ Book Group: The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
07 February 2017 by
Our first read of 2017 was The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. The book chronicles the author’s return home to Orkney...
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Ten tips on teaching creative writing
30 January 2017 by
‘I’m a raging extrovert,’ said Cathy Rentzenbrink at last year’s Durham Book Festival, speaking of missing the buzz of office...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
30 January 2017 by
Our first book of 2017, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Costa Winner of 2015 The Loney, was a suitably dark and gothic...
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Depicting poetry on film
24 January 2017 by
Filmmaker Julie Ballands speaks with us about working with poet (and NWN blogger in residence) Anna Woodford on her CoMotion...
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On the Buses… With Anna Woodford
16 January 2017 by
My poems aiming to raise awareness of the travel needs of older people are featuring inside First York buses all...
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Anna Woodford and CoMotion
05 January 2017 by
Winter. Season of slippery pavements and dark evenings. Last month I tripped over while jogging. A lovely woman with a...