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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What We’re Reading: Durham Book Festival 2023 Edition
15 September 2023 by
With less than a month to go until Durham Book Festival 2023 kicks off, we’re eagerly eyeing up the festival...
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New and Recent Poetry from the North: Autumn 2023
15 September 2023 by
As the evenings draw in, cosy up with a new poetry collection from a northern poet this autumn, recommended by...
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The North Recommends: IRON Press
15 September 2023 by
IRON Press has reached its half century! This year, Cullercoats-based IRON Press is celebrating 50 years of independent poetry publishing....
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Introducting the Climate Hope Book List: A resource for teachers and carers with primary age children
15 September 2023 by
Threads in the Ground is a new climate hope organisation, set up with the support of New Writing North. The...
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Bad weather, great thrillers – the cream of Northern-set crime fiction
15 September 2023 by
Find your new favourite crime author as Marnie Riches, crime writer and tutor on our Crime Fiction online course, tells...
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Five years of building self-esteem through creative writing
25 August 2023 by
With five years of support from Kavli Trust, New Writing North has engaged over 3,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds...
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The Bay: Interview with Julia Rampen
24 August 2023 by
Julia Rampen’s novel The Bay was published by Saraband on 10 August 2023, after winning the NorthBound Book Award in...
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Khatijah Balu on winning the TLC Free Reads Award 2022
20 July 2023 by
Khatijah Balu, winner of the 2022 TLC Free Reads Award, writes about her experience, from entering the award all the...
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Find out more about our Operations and Data Assistant role
04 July 2023 by
We are currently recruiting for an Operations and Data Assistant. In this blog post, we look at a few of the common questions we’ve received about the job, so that we can help you decide whether it’s one you’d like to apply for.
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A visit to the Hachette UK headquarters
14 June 2023 by
On 20 April 2023, the Publishing MA cohort from Northumbria University were taken around Hachette UK’s London headquarters for an...
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My experience attending the London Book Fair 2023
14 June 2023 by
Northumbria University’s Publishing MA students had the chance to visit London Book Fair on 19 April. Student Sophie Ince tells...
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The North Recommends: Hyde Park Book Club
09 June 2023 by
Hyde Park Book Club is an arts venue, cafe, bar and bookshop in Leeds. A place to grab drinks with...
