# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Writing Folklore: A Discussion with Kym Deyn and Nathaniel Spain
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: People's Bookshop in association with the North East Folklore Society and Carnyx Press is delighted to host a panel of guests discussing the contemporary resurgence of interest in folklore and folkloric writing.

Our panellists are Kym Deyn, poet, weird fiction writer, and recently selected Jerwood Fellow of New Writing North, who will be launching and reading from their debut poetry collection, folkish -- a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. They will be joined by Nathaniel Spain, a writer of short fiction, winner of the British Fantasy Society's short story competition  (2025) and the editor of Carnyx Press, a new micropress of speculative fiction based in Newcastle.

Doors open at 6.30, the event starts at 7pm, and finishes at 9-ish. As always, drinks and nibbles are included in the cost of a ticket, which is currently unaffected by the cost of oil so still just £5!

Buy tickets here: https://buytickets.at/peoplesbookshop/2139913
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/durham/writing-folklore-a-discussion-with-kym-deyn-and-nathaniel-spain/200029948004301
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Durham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: People's Bookshop
- **lat**: 54.776301507922
- **long**: -1.5753481318363
- **full address**: People's Bookshop, Unit 19, Prince Bishops Place, Durham, United Kingdom

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Writing Folklore: A Discussion with Kym Deyn and Nathaniel Spain being held?
  - **A:** Writing Folklore: A Discussion with Kym Deyn and Nathaniel Spain takes place on Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm at People's Bookshop, Unit 19, Prince Bishops Place, Durham, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Writing Folklore: A Discussion with Kym Deyn and Nathaniel Spain?
  - **A:** Writing Folklore: A Discussion with Kym Deyn and Nathaniel Spain is organized by People's Bookshop.

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