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Write on in Hastings: Joan Taylor-Rowan
HIP literary editor Pete Donohue catches up with local author and creative writing course provider Joan to get her story When I was eight years old, I discovered that my…
HIP READ: Sussex Horrors
HIP READ Sussex Horrors By Jonathan Broughton, Mark Cassell & Rayne Hall Three Sussex authors…twelve horror stories. Long term Hastings resident Jonathan Broughton writes fantasy, horror, paranormal and urban stories. Two…
HIP READ – An Outlaw in the Making By John D Robinson
The Hastings community is often lauded for both the quality and quantity of its collective creativity. Many manifestations of this can be found writ large upon our streets and festival…
Literary Hastings – A Unique Expression
Hastings and St Leonard’s has inspired poets and authors for centuries, some mainstream but most alternative. Today’s local literary creatives offer impassioned insights into our town, together with national and…
What the Dickens!
By Pete Donohue Once upon a time -- of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve -- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. When I took…
Pete & the Poets
Speaking Out for the Homeless at the Hastings Fringe Pete Donohue HIP Literature is pleased to both support and be part of Hastings Fringe 2017. On Sunday 3 September 7-10…
Jeremy Rallies Hastings (Whilst Amber Goes To the Dogs)
By Pete Donohue It came as little surprise that Jeremy Corbyn chose Hastings to launch a series of campaigning rallies around the country in preparation for the next General Election.…
HIP bookshops
Bookshops with a novel approach by Kate Barnwell It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in pursuit of a good book must be in want of a good…
WRITE ON IN HASTINGS – Miranda Innes
Local author Miranda Innes tells HIP Literature editor Pete Donohue of her adventurous writing journeys and how she has ended up in St Leonards: I have written twenty books, four…
ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue
Bookbuster Interview The US Rust Belt Poet with the Wife of Bath Kicks Out the Jams in Hastings (England) ML Liebler interviewed by Pete Donohue The (mad) March monthly…
American Porn by Heathcote Williams
A HIP READ - Review by Pete Donohue On 20th January many of us on this side of The Pond watched mouths agape as the 45th President of the United States…
Small Town, Open Mind
By Pete Donohue The Hastings & St. Leonards community has a history of all-inclusiveness and speaking its mind that stretches back over many years. Through 2017 we continue that tradition…
Not Here Not Us Short stories of Syria – Author: Bronwen Griffiths
A Hip Read - reviewed by Pete Donohue Hastings author Bronwen Griffiths describes herself as an activist committed to solidarity with the Syrian Revolution. Whether those opposing an oppressive…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 7: Weathering the winter winds in poetic style As autumn morphs into winter there are stop-start icy winds troubling our crazy coastline. I don’t welcome them. They tear through…
The Christmas Tree
By Roy Browning with illustrations by Mike Raxworthy reviewed by Pete Donohue When Phil and Ann Gill turned up with a typewritten poem at local illustrator Mike Raxworthy's studio he…
Write on in Hastings: Gavin Martin – Talking Musical Revolutions
Pete Donohue introduces: Hastings & St Leonards based music critic and performance poet, Gavin Martin, has interviewed or reviewed just about any artiste worth knowing about in the music industry…
A HIP READ – Shine On, Marquee Moon by Zoe Howe
Review by Pete Donohue: It isn’t easy ro write a debut novel set within the music industry without slipping into rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Zoe Howe overcomes this problem by…
Rainbow Ratatouille (vegan)
I’ve been vegetarian for close to forty years. During that time I’ve flirted with veganism but then reverted back to vegetarianism for various reasons. As a family of four we…
Artistic tension in St Leonards
By Neil Partrick A tense art show is taking place at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove are jointly exhibiting in ‘Surface Tension’,…
14 year-old from Hastings is third best unicyclist in the world
by Pete Donohue Dekki Sudiarta, born and raised in Hastings, first discovered his natural talent as a unicyclist at age eleven. The Rye Community College student was initially inspired…
Brookes & Leal bring an icon of contemporary literature to Hastings
Review: ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’ plus support from Andrew Grainger, Richard Heslop, Michael Smith and David Quantick. By Pete Donohue Recently relocated back to Hastings, arts event producers and…
Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
The Frackers: the Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution – by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio Press, 2013. Available at Bookbuster £ Review by Tim Barton For those of you that remember the 'Jett Rink' in the movie Giant, or the TV soaps Dallas and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 3: Madness is creeping up the Hill By Pete Donohue When I moved to Hastings thirty years ago – yep, not a native but a BICCLIDFL – someone told…
HIP remembers John Merriman
HIP remembers John Merriman Pete Donohue Age 54 is far too young to shed this mortal coil for other realms that may lie beyond, especially for such a…
Young artist impresses HIP
By Pete Donohue The HIP editorial team were so impressed with Izzy Henson’s artwork that we gave her the prestigious full back page local artist’s showcase in Issue 54. Describing…
The Revival of Labour – a Bookbuster book review
The Revival of Labour: Comrade Corbyn by Rosa Prince & Being Red: A Politics for the Future by Ken Livingstone Review by Tim Barton Rosa Prince's timely biography of Jeremy…
Hospice benefits from Mooney Madness
By Pete Donohue Good News Hastings comes together again this week in yet another high-profile community spirited collaboration. The People’s Pier was officially opened by our new mayor, Judy Rogers,…
How to be a loser – a short story by Pete Donohue
Tom Bowler was a gambler. He took his chances wherever and whenever he could. Every day was an adventure, a matter of subsistence or increased debt. He twisted responsibilities into…
RIP John Merriman
HIP remembers John Merriman By Pete Donohue Age 54 is far too young to shed this mortal coil for other realms that may lie beyond, especially for such a talented…
Junior doctors need intensive care
By Pete Donohue As reported in previous issues, many local service users and service providers are far from happy with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s dismissal of public opinion and arrogant…
Local author hammers home message of peace
Local author hammers home message of peace Andrea Needham with the hammer she used to disarm a Hawk warplane - courtesy of Peace News Pete Donohue Andrea Needham is already…