DarkFest is Portsmouth’s annual festival of the macabre and the magical that has grown from modest beginnings into a gorgeous monstrosity. William Sutton picks out highlights from the festival’s programme. What is DarkFest? In this [… 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 ]
If you’re into the creative vibe in Portsmouth, you might already attend spoken word events. But there’s a new group emerging, more or less fully formed, who are trying to do things differently. One of [… read more ]
The Conflict and Culture research group at the University of Portsmouth’s Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries will be holding a topical and satirical multimedia event on 26th April 2018. Since Brexit and the election [… 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 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 ]
To celebrate the recent release of Portsmouth writer William Sutton’s third Victorian mystery with Titan Books, Lawless & the House of Electricity, today we’re proud to present a short story featuring Victorian detective, Sergeant Campbell Lawless [… read more ]
1500 people attended the first ever Subaquatic Steampunk weekend in Gosport an event that looks set to get bigger every year. Helen Salsbury was invited to perform a subaquatic tale at this event as a [… read more ]
S&C presents a short story from Portsmouth author William Sutton, new novel, featuring Victorian detective Sergeant Campbell Lawless, known as Watchman because he was formerly a watchmaker’s apprentice. This short story coincides with the launch [… read more ]
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