What is a transmedia story? People keep asking novelist and S&C regular Christine Lawrence this and it’s taken her a while to work out the answer. She shares it with us now. After obtaining Arts [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s annual festival of the macabre, DarkFest, has just kicked off and it features a number of S&C regulars including Christine Lawrence, Matt Wingett, William Sutton, Tom Sykes and Richard Peirce. Georgina Monk looks forward [… read more ]
We gathered on the Common were searched at the gate for illicit chairs – no dispensation for me. We watched the ukulele rap duo and waited for the voices our bums on beanbags on rainbow [… read more ]
Christine Lawrence had always believed belly dancing was solely for the titillation of men, originating in female slavery. So when she was invited to a taster session with the Awakened Belly Dance group, she tried [… read more ]
45 years ago, Christine Lawrence started her career as a psychiatric nurse at Knowle Hospital near Fareham. Later in life she would publish Caught in the Web, a fictionalisation of those early experiences. How did [… read more ]
A group of local writers have taken over two annual events for Portsmouth residents who don’t love to love on Valentine’s Day. Co-organiser Christine Lawrence reports. After the success of previous years’ Portsmouth Bookfest, a [… 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 regular and Portsmouth author Christine Lawrence tries out an unusual therapy, bringing together humans and horses to find emotional understanding and healing. The July sun was burning hot on my neck as we walked [… read more ]
Portsmouth novelist Christine Lawrence continues her search for the extraordinary people of Portsmouth as she explores Eastney Road. In my journey around Portsmouth I found myself recently in the slightly less than fashionable area of [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor Christine Lawrence reflects on the General Election many people – including her – didn’t want, but nonetheless accept as a legacy of the struggle for democratic rights in this country. I hate [… read more ]
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