Hastings Favourite Christmas Tradition Is Back
A Penny Pincher’s Christmas CarolPreview by Pete Donohue A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol, Hastings’ favourite family Christmas show is returning for a five day run during the winter holiday season. This will be the fourth successive season Kate Tym and…
Debut Novel at 71
Local writer Robin Young has just had his first novel published at the age of 71. Writing under the pen name R H Young, the author from Crowhurst has been writing in various formats for several years. His book was…
US Poets at Bookbuster Sheer Poetry on 24th October
This month’s Sheer Poetry open mic event has been shifted from its usual 3rd Thursday to the 4th Thursday in order to accommodate two US poets who will be over here in the UK on tour that week. There will…
Letter To My Father By Franz Kafka
(Translated by Howard Colyer) Introduction by HIP Literature Editor Pete Donohue Kafka’s Letter to my Father is a century old this autumn. A few years ago local writer and HIP Literature reviewer, Howard Colyer, published his own translation of this…
Hastings Storytelling Festival – Earlier, Bigger And Better
This year Hastings Storytelling Festival is happening in October (5th – 13th), rather than November, with another packed programme of storytelling for children, families and adults, and incorporating a broad range of local community partners. Highlights include the free Children’s…
Shadow Times: New Poetry from Paul A Green
Independently published paperback, £ Prolific local poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, Paul A Green has been on the national and international scene for many years. His work has been read, seen and heard all over the place. I…
HIP Poetry Reads – All by (or part by) Martin Appleby
RespairHoly&intoxicated Publications 2019, £5, €5, $5 + p&p three poets 1East London Press 2019, £6 + p&p (SOLD OUT) Punk CrocAnalog Submission Press 2019, £4 + p&p Hastings poet and local litzine producer Martin Appleby describes himself as punk, scumbag and cider…
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,…