We organise a wide range of literary lectures, seminars and conferences in and beyond Durham. If you love books, reading, and literature and you live in the North East, check out our monthly North East Literature Events newsletter which gives you the heads-up about forthcoming bookchat. You can also find reports and podcasts of past events.
Join Professor Christine Alexander, author and editor of more than 20 books, including several on the Brontës, for a talk on Charlotte Brontë followed by a book launch. Everyone welcome […]
The North East poet Gillian Allnutt will read from and launch her new collection, wake, on 23rd May, in an event organised by her publisher, Bloodaxe. Join Gillian at St […]
Our next Inventions of the Text seminar features two talks by postgraduate researchers, both looking at how we present our identity to wider society. Nour Al-Sharekh will explore the role of […]
If you love books, you’re in luck. We have an astonishing four literary festivals taking place across the North East throughout May. These and more book events are captured in […]
What defines an essay? It’s a question that was prominent in the heyday of the genre in the eighteenth century, and in this next seminar in our Inventions of the […]
