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HIP LIT NEWS
Sussex arts organisation publishes anti-racist book list BY ROWENA PRICE Writing Our Legacy is delighted to share 30 Anti-Racist Books for Children – an anti-racist children’s book list for the…
HIP OBITUARY Untimely death of an anarchist
Inspirational campaigner and long-time Hastings resident Stuart Christie has died aged 74 Although ultimately a proud Scot, Stuart Christie – writer, editor, publisher, translator, anarchist campaigner and a deeply humane…
The Hastings Trawler
Set up in 2005 by local people disenchanted with the Council (not unlike HIP a decade later) this magazine spread its literary net far beyond politics to encompass history, poetry,…
Get writing for Hastings Week Poetry Competition
Hastings Week Poetry Competition continues to be a successful part of Hastings Week held each year in October. This year, the theme is Love Hastings. The competition is for all…
Young writers publish lockdown book to raise charity cash
BY HYW A group of young writers have collaborated with young people in and around Hastings to produce an anthology of stories, poems and lockdown diaries. The group, Hastings Young…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Privatising Justice: The Security Industry,War and Crime Control By Wendy Fitzgibbon and John LeaPublished by Pluto, April 2020, paperback RRP £ By Tim Barton A cartoon potted history might suggest that…
BOOKBUSTERS REVIEW
Just Transitions:Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon WorldEdited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris StevisPublished by Pluto, November 2019, paperback RRP £ Review By Tim Barton Once…
HIP READ
Stories for the Mad Volume One Various authors Book review by Elly Gibson Stories for the Mad is the debut short fiction anthology from Moran Press, based just outside Boston…
Local Author Rides To Success On A Mobility Scooter
Back in HIP 148, Literature reviewer Elly Gibson reviewed Strange Exits from Hastings by local author Helena Wojtczak – and very favourably too. Since then Wojtczak has sold more than…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Deficit Myth:Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy By Stephanie KeltonPublished by John Murray Review by Lee Humphries I’ve been eagerly awaiting Stephanie Kelton’s book The…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Human Kind: A Hopeful HistoryBy Rutger Bregman Published by BloomsburyReview by ‘MW’ Human Kind a Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman, has been my choice during the quarantine. I find myself…
HIP Short Story
Night of the Pixie Moon By Jemia De Blondeville i decided some deforestation was urgently needed, during the period of this Super Moon. and set about cutting through the wiry…
HIP Poetry Read
Of Few Words By Lucas Howard Whisky & Beards PublishingHardback £15 Review by Pete Donohue Dyslexia and Neurodiversity-friendly Poetry Here is a new poetry collection with a distinct difference. Hastings…
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek gods What if they were alive today? Simone Witney looks at Dionysus (Roman Bacchus). Earth, wind, fire – and wine. While his sister, Athena, and companion Apollo were…
Silly Squad
Summer reading challenge for 4 to 11 year olds By Karen Bowls (ESCC) Young readers in East Sussex are being encouraged to join the Silly Squad for a summer of…
HIP READ
Smoking Herb & Other Stories By John D RobinsonAnalog Submission Press Review by Pete Donohue A title may not mean what you think it does. This isn’t a tale about…
Calling all BAME writers and artists
Submit to a new literary magazine By Rowena Price Writing Our Legacy is delighted to announce its new online literary programme, New Narratives: We Need to Change the Stories We’re…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and PrisonsEdited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich MothPublished by Pluto Books, November 2019, paperback £ Review by…
HIP READ
Cassidy’s Cross By Tom O’Brien Review by Elly Gibson Cassidy’s Cross is set in the fictional village of Doonbay in the South East of Ireland. It’s the 1960s and rural life…
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek Gods What if these deities were alive today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In…
Bookbuster Review
The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful Part Three: Busting the ‘Anthropocene’ Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth SystemBy Ian Angus Monthly Review Press, RRP…
HIP READ
Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Conservation Revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the AnthropoceneBy Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Verso, RRP £ Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton We face a global…
Animal Encounter Stories – The 2nd Runners Up
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life…
HIP CLASSICS: The Greek Gods
What If These Deities Were Alive Today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In this issue: Apollo…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful – Part One: HubrisBy Holly Jean Buck Review by Tim Barton In After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, £),…
Animal Encounter Stories – The 1st Runners Up
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
When Protest Becomes Crime:Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies By Carolijn TerwindtPublished by Pluto Books, paperback £ Review by Tim Barton In liberal democracies there tends to be an assumption,…
Animal Encounter Stories – The Winners!
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life…
How To Keep Writing In Lockdown
NICCI TALBOT, journalist and copywriter, offers HIP readers and writers some practical tips on how to stay creative and productive during this Covid-19 crisis. Follow her blog via the website…
HIP LOCAL ESSAY
Some Thoughts on Quarantine by the Sea By Chris Smith The sea is almost completely still this afternoon, coloured an undefinable shade of grey as if to reflect the slowly…
HIP POETRY READ
The Death of a Clown By Tom Bland Review by R J Dent Beneath the striking cover of Tom Bland’s poetry pamphlet, The Death of a Clown, there is a…
Greg’s Pandemic Plathcast
Iconic poetry for all in times of lockdown People in Hastings and St Leonards are doing all sorts of things to keep occupied… one of the strangest, perhaps, is Greg’s…
Hastings Young Writers
Group Young writers offered isolation challenge Budding young writers in Hastings and surrounding areas are being encouraged to use their creative skills during the Coronavirus lockdown. Hastings Young Writers Group…
Hastings Museum Seeks Volunteers To Keep A Coronavirus Journal
The COVID-19 crisis has affected, and continues to affect, the lives of all of us. Many of the resultant changes to our lifestyles will hopefully only be temporary but others…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Land By Jacquetta Hawkes A Pelican Book, paperback published 1959; hardback from Cresset Press, 1951 Review by Tim Barton Jacquetta Hawkes Perfidious Albion, the culmination of centuries under the Norman…
HIP LOCAL READ
Coming of Age By Danny Ryan Review by Amanda Pollard A friendly reviewer of this book writes on page one “I read it in one sitting”. This is encouraging since I’ve…
Hastings Literary Festival –2020 Statement
By Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival 2020, due to take place at the end of August, has been cancelled following suspension of the Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants…
HIP READ
Strange Exits from HastingsA Cornucopia of Bizarre Deaths and Unsolved Murders By Helena Wojtczak£10: Review by Elly Gibson What comes to mind when you think about Hastings? The famous…
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek Gods What if these deities were alive today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In…