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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New and Recent Poetry from the North: Winter 2022
09 December 2022 by
Senior Programme Manager, Will Mackie has rounded up some of his favourite recent releases from Northern poets. Read his recommendations of poetry collections published in Winter 2022.
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What We’re Reading: Winter 2022 Edition
09 December 2022 by
We asked the team at NWN what books they enjoyed in 2022, what they'll be gifting and what books they're hoping to receive this Christmas.
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My experience planning and chairing an event for Turn Up For The Books 2022
15 November 2022 by
Turn Up For The Books participant Nalini Ram-Prasad tells us about her experience chairing an event for Durham Book Festival in 2022.
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In my element: A year of listening to the climate
10 November 2022 by
Kiersten Murray-Borbjerg, a disabled artist and aspiring writer based in North Shields, reflects upon her experience attending Linda France’s monthly Listening to the Climate podcast discussion group.
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My experience taking part in Turn Up For The Books 2022
07 November 2022 by
Turn Up For The Books participant Jemima D’Souza tells us about her experience as a Young Programmer in 2022.
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Researching Common People
20 September 2022 by
As part of a decade-long partnership between New Writing North and Northumbria University, Katherine Stanton is researching contemporary writing by and about the working classes, read about Katherine’s research here.
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What We’re Reading: Durham Book Festival 2022 Edition
16 September 2022 by
Durham Book Festival is just around the corner which means it's time for the staff at NWN to share their most anticipated reads from the festival! Find out what books we're currently loving as well as the ones we can't wait to read.
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The North Recommends: Nightjar Press
16 September 2022 by
Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors.
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The North Recommends: Collected Bookshop
16 September 2022 by
Durham city centre has a brand new independent bookshop! Owner Emma tells us more...
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Startling: Interview with Linda France
15 September 2022 by
As Linda France nears the end of her climate-writing residency with New Writing North and Newcastle University, we asked her to talk about the work which has come out of the experience.
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Four poems from a digital residency
In 2022, New Writing North teamed up with the African Writers' Trust to co-create an online residency, led by poet Nick Makoha, to invite young and emerging writers from England and Uganda to develop their craft in a shared, digital space.
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New and Recent Poetry from the North: Summer 2022
17 June 2022 by
Recommendations of poetry collections published in Summer 2022 compiled by our Senior Programme Manager, Will Mackie.