Poet Penny Pepper Pops Up
Tomorrow night (Thursday 15 November), Penny Pepper will be reading from her new collection of poetry at Book Buster in Queen’s Road. Erica Smith tells us why we should get down to see her perform.
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Hastings Writers’ Group forges ahead
The long established Hastings Writers’ Group (HWG) invites budding writers to come and try the group for themselves. The group
Exploring Windrush
Following a few extraordinary weeks during which a passport was placed in Michael Braithwaite’s hand and his fight for the right to remain working and living in the UK was resolved pending compensation, he joins Sussex experiential theatre company ExploreTheArch and fellow Windrush generation musicians in a new summer production – The House after Windrush – which opens on Monday 6 August.
Battle Festival summer residency offer
Battle Festival invites applications from young people aged 14-25 for a summer residency as part of Battle Festival, working with Glyndebourne, Opera Circus and Crisis Classroom to produce The Giufà Project – and applications are now open for their August residency at Battle Abbey School, 20 to 31 August. Hannah Collisson writes.
Debate or just Hate – A Woman’s Place UK
Last week HOT published an article about Woman’s Place UK coming to Hastings on 20 June. This week, we publish a voice from the other side of the debate – Natasha Scott is one of the organisers of Hastings Pride and a trans-woman.
Bloomsday 1066
Hastings is getting ready to celebrate Bloomsday in one of the most appropriate places possible for an important modernist text: Hastings Library or the Brassey Institute at Claremont in the town centre. Lucy Brennan writes.
Here Casts No Shadow
Here Casts No Shadow is the latest novel by local author, Bronwen Griffiths. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks about her deep connection with the written word, her motivation and the inspiration for her latest book, which she will be talking about at two events in May.
Wood and Fire
Wood and Fire, a short story by HOT’s Chandra Masoliver and one of the stories included in Earlyworks Press new anthology of competition winners, Sorcery of Smog
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