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.
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Sleep Stories
Sleep Stories is a three-part podcast series, mixing science with story, which is inspired by the contemporary sleep crisis.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Murmuration: a collective film poem
A collective poem in a time of climate crisis and coronavirus, by Linda France and Kate Sweeney.
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Writing Durham
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Writing Durham: Ben Myers
An interview with Durham born author Benjamin Myers, as he walks around his childhood home in Belmont.
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A Room of One’s Own: Kerry Hudson and Suzanne Moore
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The People’s Landscape on the Durham Coast: Phoebe Power and Katrina Porteous
Durham Book Festival in partnership with the National Trust, commissioned the poets Phoebe Power and Katrina Porteous to undertake a writing residency exploring a stretch of the Durham Coastline between Seaham and Horden.