Sunday 10 September 2017

Commissions at Durham Book Festival

The latest New Writing North newsletter has details of commissions at Durham Book Festival:


The Durham Book Festival programme is now live!
 
Commissions at Durham Book Festival
What makes Durham Book Festival truly unique? We think our original commissions really make us stand out from the crowd!
Every year, the Durham Book Festival programme features newly commissioned writing in a variety of genres from great writers. This allows us to work with some amazing talent, and gives us the opportunity to premier these exciting pieces to festival audiences.
This year we are proud to announce a diverse list of commissions. Our flagship commission sees four outstanding writers, Petina Gappah, Benjamin Myers, Alexei Sayle and Lionel Shriver, producing a piece of work in response to the extraordinary news cycle of 2017. Our yearly children’s theatre production Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo, is set to bring music, laughs and monsters to Durham. The talented graphic novelist Una, will be bringing zine-making to the programme and embarking upon a two-year graphic novel project to be inspired by the people and landscape of Durham. We also have some truly terrific writers giving their take on modern times, from gender-norm anxiety to the history of the Labour Party in the North East.

 


 


 

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