Origin Stories: Retold
In this talk and workshop series, writers and academics Drs Hitchman and Jordan-Baker (University of Brighton) will explore stories of origin: how they get told, what they
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Forthwrite Festival: Women’s Festival of Writing
Forthwrite Festival: a celebration of women writers over 50 Brighton: Saturday, 15 March 2025 Crawley: Sunday, 30 March 2025 March 2025 saw the first ever
The Coast is Queer
A radical new festival for Brighton featuring some of the best LGBTQ+ literature
West Dean Residency Programme
A residency programme to challenge under-representation of Black and Asian British writers in the literary world
We See You Now: Alinah Azadeh
Supporting Alinah Azadeh, Writer-in-Residence at Seven Sisters Country Park
Working Class Writers Collective
The Working Class Writers Collective brings together writers from working-class backgrounds based across the south-east region. The collective was established as a call to arms,
Writing Around the Kids
Writing Around the Kids are free creative writing workshops for mothers of young children. The sessions are for writers of all abilities. Whether you’ve never
Our work with publishers
Common People With partners: Kit de Waal, New Writing North, National Centre for Writing, Literature Works, Writing West Midlands, Writing East Midlands, Spread the Word
Our work in Hastings
With partners Historic England, alongside New Writing North, National Centre for Writing, Literature Works, Writing West Midlands, Writing East Midlands, Spread the Word High Street
Hear us Out
Since its inception in 2018, Hear Us Out has worked with a community collective of LGBTQ+ volunteers to collect the funny, touching and celebratory real-life