Durham Book Festival
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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.
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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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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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Ukraine: Geopolitics and History in the European Borderlands
This round table discussion was recorded by Durham Book Festival in partnership with Durham University in September 2022 and brings a group of leading historians together to explores the history of the current conflict in Ukraine.
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Self-Guided Walk: The Never Never Land of W. H. Auden
Follow in W. H. Auden’s footsteps on a downloadable self-guided circular walk starting and finishing in Rookhope and listen to broadcaster Jeremy Vine give an overview of Auden, his work and affinity with the North Pennines.
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Naomi Booth on Violet Hunt
Violet Hunt was a writer born in Durham in 1862. She went on to found both the Women’s Suffrage League and English PEN, as well as becoming a prolific writer and literary salon host.
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Jessica Andrews: Forgotten Histories and Finding New Narratives
This essay from award-winning Sunderland-born writer Jessica Andrews reflects on the many facets of north-eastern female identity and how it is perceived today.
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Letters from the World
We invited five acclaimed international authors to write letters to the people of Durham on the same day in August 2022.
