In my innovation hub I Innovate with my hub I Redesign designs I Rebrand brands I Generate smart content and have smart lunches with smart people I Influence the influencers I Promote, advertise, personalise I [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based author, publisher and S&C regular, Matt Wingett, argues that last week’s closure of Blackwell’s bookshop bears the mark of a wider malady: the corporatisation of art, culture and higher education in our time. Sadly, [… read more ]
To celebrate the arrival of 2018, we’re looking back this week at the most popular 10 articles published on S&C in 2017. From tactical voting to therapy with horses, from the right to protest to [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Coordinator of Portsmouth Writers’ Hub, Tessa Ditner, talks to local writers following recent news that Blackwell’s Portsmouth may close on 22nd December. I run the Portsmouth Writers’ Hub, a community of writers [… read more ]
Following recent news of the proposal to close Blackwell’s Portsmouth, and confirmation from the bookshop’s team last week that ‘negotiations are ongoing’ between Blackwell and the University of Portsmouth, local writer Tom Harris highlights the [… read more ]
Reviewer and student Emily Priest investigates the recent announcement that Blackwell and the University of Portsmouth have decided to shut Blackwell’s Portsmouth. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. Following a period of commercial struggle, the University [… read more ]
Following recent news that Portsmouth Blackwell’s is under threat, local writer Will Sutton explains the huge difference the team there have made to his own career and to the wider writing community in the city. [… read more ]
S&C presents a story by local author Fletch Mallory, part of a collection that make up his recently released novel Stranded Foxes, inter-linked stories that jump through history and speak through a myriad of voices, [… read more ]
S&C presents an excerpt from Portsmouth author Tom Harris‘ new novel, The Amber Moon, Part 1: Of Shadows & Dragons, the third book in his Wings, Wands and Weird Worlds series for young adults. The [… read more ]
Portsmouth University librarian Lizzie Wildgoose had a surreal surprise when she dropped in to her local branch of Blackwells the other day. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, or should that read [… read more ]
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