HASTINGS LITFEST UPDATE Have a chat with Sarfraz Manzoor
You may know him as a journalist in The Guardian, documentary presenter on Radio 4, or a cultural commentator on Newsnight Review or Saturday Review. You may not know him at all. But here’s a chance to meet him in…
HIP POETRY READ
Hang in Thereby John D RobinsonUncollected Press 2019, £12, €15, $15 + p&p Review by Pete Donohue Widely published Hastings poet John D Robinson has at least eight chapbooks to his name (that I know of) and has featured in…
Hidden Sussex
Hastings & St Leonards writers featured in a new BAME Anthology Lisa Climie and Georgina Aboud have been published in a first anthology celebrating Sussex experience from the Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) perspective. Hidden Sussex features fiction, poetry,…
Write on in Hastings – Andy Oakes
HIP Literature Editor Pete Donohue hears how long-time Hastings based author Andy Oakes achieved international success by creating his own crime genre From Dyslexia to Chinese NoirAlthough a chronic dyslexic, once I learnt the rudimentary rules of reading and writing…
grandIOTA
New Local Independent Press Launch By Pete Donohue grandIOTA is a new independent press based in Brighton and St Leonards, dedicated to imaginative, out of the ordinary prose writing. The press launches its first two books at The Bookkeeper Bookshop…
Write On In Hastings: Tom O’Brien
HIP Literature Editor PETE DONOHUE catches up with fellow Hastings-based Irish writer Tom O’Brien I started writing seriously over 25 years ago. Oh, I had always been a bit of a scribbler but most of it wound up in the…
HIP POETRY READ
Come Home Alive By Penny PepperBurning Eye Books 2018, RRP £ Reviewed by Pete Donohue Published performance poet, author, journalist and disability rights activist Penny Pepper is no stranger to Hastings & St Leonards. Sharing her time over the last few years between…
HIP READ
Too Many Drinks Ago By John D Robinson (Paper And Ink Literary Zine, £5) Poetry is more than words on a page (but no batteries required for alternative literature) It’s a simplistic and cringingly obvious statement I’ve headed this HIP Read with…
Who Doesn’t Love A Story?
Eight years since its first appearance, Hastings Storytelling Festival returns once again for a diverse series of events happening all over town between 5th and 11th November. There’s something for everyone here – adults, families and of course local children,…
James Joyce Inspires Local Art
Following the success of Hastings Bloomsday, a local celebration of Joyce’s ground-breaking novel Ulysses in collaboration with Hastings Library, an art exhibition inspired by this work launches at Café Rue De Pera, Queens Road, Hastings, on Thursday 20th September Featured…