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.
Fiction is the real truth
29 August 2017 by
There is a question I’ve always been interested in as a writer, perhaps more so than any other. What is...
Writing for BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Drama
08 August 2017 by
Photo Credit: Maria Spadafora Kamal Kaan is a writer and performer. He read Architecture at Cambridge University and awarded a...
Writing my first novel
04 August 2017 by
I’ve always wanted to write a novel but I’ve never had the ideas or the commitment and perseverance to finish...
I can writer like a dream
03 August 2017 by
I can write like a dream. And I do it every day. I’ve done it every day since I was...
Margaret Mulligan and Read Regional
12 July 2017 by
The month of June has seen me up and out at the crack of dawn, (previously unheard of) climbing into...
Jane Austen 200 – Finding inspiration from early women’s writing
23 June 2017 by
‘I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever...
Glimpses into everyday life: Read Regional 2017
22 June 2017 by
Deborah Andrews is the author of Walking the Lights , which has been described as ‘a feminist Withnail and I’...
The loneliness of the long-distance writer: Read Regional 2017
19 June 2017 by
John Donoghue – author of The Death’s Head Chess Club – talks about his experience of participating in Read Regional...
Naomi Booth’s taxonomy of libraries: Read Regional 2017
12 June 2017 by
Author Naomi Booth is currently taking part in our Read Regional campaign, touring the length and breadth of the North...
Bon Voyage! NWN’s Claire Malcolm on the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship
08 June 2017 by
Above (Left to right): Michelle Green, Chloe Daykin and Emma McGordon, the 2015-17 winners of the fellowship Claire Malcolm, New...
Young Writers’ Talent Fund: Exploring the writing process with Papaya Press
12 May 2017 by
Papaya Press is a small independent press based in the North East. Its founder Lauren Vevers recently spoke with Book and...
The Venn diagram of people who get published and people who listen to editorial advice is a circle
08 May 2017 by
I’m currently spending a day a week working as the editor for Cuckoo Review – an online publication, run by New Writing...
