Books Backing into light My father’s Son by Colin Spencer Colin Spencer was born in 1933. It’s a date that’s important in the sense that it puts his birth between the two world wars and leaves his future affected by both. There are layers in ‘Backing into the light’. Stories beneath the story. Peel away the top layer, the story of an artist and writer […] By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Crime writers to read from new novels To celebrate National Crime Writing Month 2013, Peter James will be reading from his new novel Dead Man’s Time, the ninth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Roy Grace series. He will be joined by Seth Patrick whose debut novel Reviver was inspired by a writing course run by Peter James. Rev By Besi • 1 min read
Books June edition of Pink Humanist now available online High levels of intolerance towards LGBT people in Europe and Africa are shown in two separate surveys released last month (May). Details of the findings are contained in the June issue of The Pink Humanist, the quarterly online magazine, published by the UK gay charity, the Pink Triangle Trust, on t By Besi • 1 min read
Books Brighton writers contribute to LGBTQ Doctor Who book Long time friends and Brighton residents Neil Chester and Martin Warren have contributed to ‘Queers Dig Time Lords’ an anthology of new essays on Doctor Who from an LGBTQ perspective. Published this month by Mad Norwegian Press the book is a sister edition to the previous collection ‘Chicks Dig Time By Besi • 1 min read
Books New patron for QueenSpark QueenSpark, Brighton & Hove’s very own community publishing venture, has a new patron in the shape of Dr Margaretta Jolly. Dr Jolly, a Reader in Cultural Studies at Sussex University, has been a fan of QueenSpark Books since she came across them in the 1990s, and has been involved with them in her o By Besi • 1 min read
Arts The Keep is coming! The Keep is coming ! The Keep is a new historical resource centre for East Sussex and the Brighton & Hove Unitary Authority. Its conservators will collect, protect and connect with Brighton and Hove’s ancient and often unique heritage. The facility which is being built on land close to the Univer By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Search for county poetry champs! The search is on to find the poet “laureates” of Sussex. Entry to the competition is free and, like all the other winners from counties over the country, the Sussex “laureates” will get their work published in the National Poetry Anthology and receive a free copy of the book. One overall winner will By Besi • 1 min read
Books Brighton Transformed QueenSpark, the city’s publisher of local voices, is embarking on a new project to bring the lives and experiences of Brighton & Hove’s Trans community to a wider audience. Called ‘Brighton Transformed’, the project will document the life stories of local Trans people online, in book form, and also By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Books Sexy Sailors: Book review This all new collection of gay erotic stories is great steamy fun, with a strong focus of sexy seafaring tales from a collection of established gay erotica writers. A traditional and much lusted after figure, the seaman is the tanned, toned and rugged hunk of many a gay mans fantasy. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Books Calvert’s Guide to The British :British stereotypes in order of social rank: Book review This is a great weighty tome of snobbery, a wedge of acid tongued closely observed stereotyping straining with humour against the political correctness of our time, it leaves no stone unthrown in it’s pursuit of a deeply revealing snapshot of the British as they are today. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts ‘Have a word’ Have a Word, Brighton’s new LGBT arts, literary and performance night takes place the second Wednesday of each month from June 12 at the Arundel Suite, Holiday Inn, Brighton. The event will be an opportunity to hear Polari prize winner John McCullough read from his book The Frost Fairs and singer/st By Besi • 1 min read
Books Young writers scheme Theatre Royal Brighton Young Writers, a partnership between Theatre Royal Brighton and New Writing South, has launched a new project for young writers aged 16–25 who are passionate about writing. Sixteen writers will be selected to work with professional writer Dinos Aristidou over the course of 14 By Graham Robson • 1 min read
