Commissioned Work
We regularly commission new writing through our programmes and events, such as the Durham Book Festival. Read, watch or listen to diverse and original pieces here.
Ideas for Positive Change
Ideas for Positive Change is a new series of short talks, presented by Durham University academics. Inspired by the success of New Ideas for the New Normal in 2020, a range of world-class researchers return to Durham Book Festival to explore how we might build a more positive future.
Sleep Stories
Sleep Stories is a three-part podcast series, mixing science with story, which is inspired by the contemporary sleep crisis.
In Our Element – with Linda France
A poet’s enquiry into climate change: Linda France talks to activists, engineers, conservationists, academics, poets and musicians around the world to hear their take on the ecological crisis.
Disability and the Politics of Visibility
Disability and the Politics of Visibility is a series of commissioned talks by five vital and exciting disabled artists at the forefront of thinking and writing.
Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writing
21 June 2021 by
Introduction Open submissions to Test Signal closed on 6 February 2020. On 16 March, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, began...
New Narratives for the North East | Commissioned Writing
Early in 2020, fifteen writers were commissioned to create new work about the North East in an ambitious project from...
Home Time – with Helen Shaddock
With a free journal template, Home Time invites you to draw and write your day, and to reflect upon the small details that make each day unique.
Tony Walsh: The Sum of Us
In 2020, Tony Walsh wrote a powerful and thought-provoking new poem to bring the country back together and show that collectively the sum of us is greater than its parts.
Murmuration: a collective film poem
A collective poem in a time of climate crisis and coronavirus, by Linda France and Kate Sweeney.
Writing Durham
Writing Durham: Ben Myers
An interview with Durham born author Benjamin Myers, as he walks around his childhood home in Belmont.
A Room of One’s Own: Kerry Hudson and Suzanne Moore
