The big issue in fiction is subjectivity, argues Sue Harper, fiction writer and Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth. And it is the most tricky. You can, of course, write about [… read more ]
In the second of local author and Emeritus Professor Sue Harper‘s ruminations on the writer’s craft, she examines pleasure, novelty, influences and structure. That title seems a little presumptuous: after all, one might say, ‘what [… read more ]
Sue Harper, local author and Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth, presents a series of short essays about writing – how to do it, how it feels, what it means. To [… read more ]
A University of Portsmouth Emeritus Professor who came from a poor Midlands background has dedicated her newly published memoir to her mother, who inspired her love of art. Veteran journalist Peter Gruner tells us more. [… read more ]
By Sue Harper Sarah had signed up to go on a 10-day cruise. She had great misgivings about it: she might be stuck in a floating gin palace with intolerable bores, she might have a [… read more ]
We are thrilled to announce that we have appointed two Literary Editors to the team, Prof Sue Harper and long-time contributor to the site, Paul Valentine. Sue and Paul are keen to read work submitted [… read more ]
By Sue Harper Sarah kept seeing something out of the corner of her eye. It was almost there when she looked aslant, and then it disappeared when she tried to look at it head-on. It [… read more ]
By Sue Harper Sarah’s partner remarked: ‘I do hope someone cooks dinner.’ That seemed rather a passive-aggressive formulation, Sarah thought. Why not ask her outright? After all, she did it every single day. ‘Will you [… read more ]
The COVID-19 lockdown has forced art galleries to close and important exhibitions to be cancelled. It’s made Sue Harper, Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth, think a lot about curatorship and [… read more ]
S&C Arts Correspondent Paul Valentine is impressed by a funny, irreverent, macabre and inventive new book of short stories by Sue Harper, local author and Portsmouth University Emeritus Professor of Film History. If you thought [… read more ]
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