Christine Lawrence describes finishing her novel, which had not been touched for a year, while in lockdown, and how she managed to write over 87,000 words during the pandemic. I sit and stare into the [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 66 and Ian shares some of his best – and worst – reads from [… read more ]
By Christine Lawrence Standing on his hind legs, sure he’d heard a sound from the other end of the garden, he stretched his neck, sniffed the air and listened. His eyes were not his best [… read more ]
Maggie Sawkins writes about her experience of using poetry to work with a local group open to anyone battling with substance misuse, mental ill health and/or homelessness, which runs on Saturdays at Central Library. Biblio-Poetry [… read more ]
Inspired by the darker side of our maritime history, Dark Side Port Side is a self-guided poetry film trail through an imagined 19th century Portsmouth. William Sutton tells of the genesis of this ground-breaking project, [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – student at Havant and South Downs College, Madison Bowley mixes [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voice project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – 17 year old student at Havant and South Downs College, [… read more ]
Elizabeth Palmer has been interviewing various teachers of creative writing to gain insights into their motives, methods and approaches. Lately she spoke to Dr Alison Habens, novelist, poet and Head of Creative Writing at the [… read more ]
Eileen Robertson (1941-2018) We’re sorry to have to report that one of our friends and member of the Portsmouth writing community, Eileen Robertson, died on Tuesday 20th November. Eileen was proud of being a Yorkshire [… 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 ]
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