Alec Laverty wrote this creative non-fiction short story after participating in a local writing project called Portsmouth, City of Stories, part of a wider 2 year festival of festival of stories, creative writing, storytelling and [… read more ]
Community reporter, Paul Valentine, reviews the recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance, Smooth Classics II, at Portsmouth Guildhall on 16th November 2018, conducted by Marta Gardolińska. As someone who wants to find messages and story [… read more ]
When Portsmouth resident Charis Webster became a professional journalist she thought she’d found her dream job. However, the stresses and pressures soon took their toll. University of Portsmouth Creative Writing student, Elizabeth Palmer, reports. Charis [… read more ]
Author and S&C co-founder Tom Sykes‘ new ‘political travelogue’, The Realm of the Punisher, is published today by Signal Books. It records the last nine years’ of Tom’s visits to the Philippines, a country now [… read more ]
Local resident and S&C contributor Ian Morris gives a tongue in cheek response to last week’s draft Brexit deal, and asks what it means for Britain, and our political discourse. Last Thursday, I listened to [… read more ]
S&C is proud to share Portsmouth City Council’s Stories from the City project, which aims to ‘celebrate the people behind Portsmouth’s vibrant voluntary and community sector – one story at a time.’ Alby Clover, volunteer [… read more ]
S&C Community Reporter Andrew Hurdle interviews Richard Stride from Pompey’s Groundlings Theatre about the history of the theatre and the coming season. Richard Stride explains the history of the Groundlings Theatre, including that Charles Dickens’ [… read more ]
By Helen Salsbury I went in search of the plot, in the metaphorical forest, where all the trees looked the same. I went with an older, American Writer, who’d seen it all before. ‘The story,’ [… read more ]
In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of Britain’s Secret Wars, a critique of modern [… read more ]
S&C is proud to share Portsmouth City Council’s Stories from the City project, which aims to ‘celebrate the people behind Portsmouth’s vibrant voluntary and community sector – one story at a time.’ Caitlin Rawlins, volunteer [… read more ]
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