Durham Book Festival
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Imagining a future career in literature: Lucy Twigg on her experience with Turn Up for the Books
22 November 2023 by
Lucy Twigg reflects on how meeting writers and readers fuelled her confidence to pursue her own creative path.
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Readers, Writers and Book Reviews: Catherine Dent on her time as a young programmer at Durham Book Festival
21 November 2023 by
Catherine Dent reflects on how this year’s team played their part in the festival, and everything they learned along the way.
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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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Audio Commission: Cuddy’s Course Self-Guided Literary Walk
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What Does the Future Hold?
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Essay Commission: Cuthbert and the Female Saints: Dr Janina Ramirez
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Writing the Missing – The Water Trilogy
In mesmeric lyrical dialogue with her brain, the river and the sea, award winning disabled activist, writer and performer Lisette Auton weaves together character and setting to provoke debate and action in The Water Trilogy.
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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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SoulFood: A Film from REfUSE Café
REfUSE is a pay-as-you-feel community café that works to reduce food waste. Working with filmmaker Nick Whitworth and producer Emily Wiseman, the café community have co-created a film showcasing the ground-breaking environmental work and culture of the café.
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The New Great Britons
In 2002, the BBC ran a campaign to find the Greatest Briton. 20 years on, this partnership project with Durham University’s Dr Natalie Mears is a series of short films with leading university researchers, each advocating for ‘great Britons’ they feel have been overlooked by history.
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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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Yours Sincerely: The Climate Letters
An online showcase of Linda France's Yours Sincerely installation, including some of the letters, artwork and commissioned pieces that were part of the project.
