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…
Poetry by Sir David Hare – Hastings hears it first
The first Hastings Literary Festival got off to a memorable start last Friday afternoon with a world premiere reading of poetry written by Sir David Hare. The opening event of this three-day LitFest took place in the magnificent surroundings of…
Polari on Sea – Back by Popular Demand
Three and a half weeks on from the successful – albeit rain-washed and eventually diverted to drier venues – second Hastings Pride festival, HIP Literature welcomes the return of celebrated LGBT+ Polari Literary Salon to our town. Based at London’s…
HIP CHILDREN’S READ
Me and My Alien Friend Cosmic Poems about Friendship Written and illustrated by Ed Boxall The latest publication from Hastings writer, illustrator, performer and educator, Ed Boxall, is published by Troica Books this September in paperback at £ Me and…