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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‘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...
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Durham Book Group: The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
02 January 2017 by
Our reading choice for the last book group meeting of 2016 was James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life and as a...
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Screenwriting Competitions: Choosing the Right One For You
28 December 2016 by
Screenwriting competitions are a great way for the film industry to identify up-and-coming screenwriting talent. There are currently a great...
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Crossing over from horror to crime fiction
20 December 2016 by
Like Poe’s Tell Tale Heart, horror has beaten a constant tattoo around me. Monsters, ghosts, demons, UFOs have always been...
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Being A Cuckoo Young Writer
20 December 2016 by
I joined Cuckoo Young Writers just over a year ago, when I dragged my best friend, Shana, to the Cramlington...