“I want to read about the trouble a person might have with making things. About what might stop a person making things, making art, I mean. Like money”. A request which leads Nicola Long to the letters of Donna Dreeman, a potter who died in the eighties, …

As Andrew McMillan heads to Durham Book Festival, Ann Chadwick spoke to him about finding literature, happiness, and love. Can literature transform lives? “God, yeah, I think so,” Andrew McMillan says. The poet is something of a northern star for New Writ…

Sheep Inc has the answer to all your sustainable woolly needs. After a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it summer, autumn is now well underway and that means only one thing – knitwear. If you’re looking for a more sustainable way to wear your wool, Sheep Inc has com…