Newcastle Libraries and The Lit & Phil present Books on Tyne 2025

Jake Morris-Campbell’s Between the Salt and the Ash asks what stories the North East can tell about itself in the...

This paper looks at England’s regional writing development agencies (RWDAs) and considers the ways they make contemporary writing happen. Focussing on New Writing North, it starts by describing the...

Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between

Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between

Join us on a journey through pilgrimage and place, with Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Professor Peter Scott

Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between

Join us on a journey through pilgrimage and place, with Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Professor Peter Scott

Release date 18 March 2025After inheriting his great-grandfather’s Davy lamp, poet Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage across his homeland. Travelling from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to ...

The poet tells us his favourite places to visit in Northumbria ahead of the launch of his book, Between The Salt and the Ash, and related talks at Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick and The Common Room, Newc...

Our heritage isn’t just about mining and nor is this book. The author expertly shows how the region is made up of layers of history, identity, work etc., and the way that sculpture, art, poetry etc ca...