When travel writer and Southeast Europe scholar Tom Phillips had a chance meeting with a Bulgarian student in Portsmouth, he couldn’t have predicted all that would happen next… We sat on the grass and smoked [… read more ]
In the second of an exclusive series on Portsmouth’s fecund literary heritage, author and historian Matt Wingett discusses the impact of the city on the writer who won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. Rudyard [… read more ]
Southsea-based novelist William Sutton reports on the most writer-friendly eateries in Portsmouth. “Are there any Southsea cafes good for writing in?” asked a post on Portsmouth Writers Hub Facebook page. I was astonished by the [… read more ]
Invirtual Memorandum From: Prof. —- , Dean-for-Impact of Global Appropriation and Annexation Strategizing To: Dr —- , E-Provost-in-Chief of Knowledge Commodification Hey Dr —, Just back from the Planet Pedagogy E-Xpo in the enterprising metropolis [… read more ]
This is the first in a series of features in which local author and publisher Matt Wingett explores Portsmouth’s relationship to a long line of writers dating back to the Victorian era. In this issue, [… read more ]
Star & Crescent is an independent news website that believes in journalism to create social change. We aim to: Hold power to account Provide a platform on which to raise up missing and marginalised voices [… read more ]
In his own words, ‘JS Adams is amazing and writes stuff all the time’, though what he writes is usually science fiction. Inspired by his father’s interest in astronomy, he is a direct descendant of John Couch Adams, who [… read more ]
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