Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 11th January 2024, featuring Celia Hunt (prose), Robin Houghton (poetry), Imogen Harris (prose) and Peter Kenny (poetry). Nb this is an updated line-up since originally advertised, and we hope to continue featuring FOUR readers at each event throughout 2024!
This will be a LIVE event at the John Harvey Tavern in Lewes (upstairs room): doors 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
Tickets £5 (£3 students/unwaged and claiming benefit) available on the door.
Books will be for sale on the night (cash only please).
Celia Hunt ran and taught the MA in Creative Writing for Personal Development at the University of Sussex for 14 years. She is the author of three books: Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing (2000), Writing: Self and Reflexivity (with Fiona Sampson, 2006), and Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing (2013). She also edited (with Fiona Sampson) The Self on the Page: Theory and Practice of Creative Writing in Personal Development (1998) and has had poetry published. She retired from Sussex in 2010 and in the last few years has been writing a self-exploratory book on her experience of learning across her life. It incorporates and explores poems and extracts from fiction she wrote in the past and recreates episodes from her life using literary techniques. She will be reading a section from this book for Needlewriters.
Robin Houghton is the author of four poetry pamphlets: Why? And Other Questions, joint winner of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2019, All the Relevant Gods, joint winner of the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Competition 2018, The Great Vowel Shift, (Telltale Press, 2014) and Foot Wear, a handmade limited-edition illustrated micro-pamphlet. Her work is widely published in magazines and anthologies and she was awarded the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2013. Non-fiction books include A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines (Telltale, 2020) and Blogging for Creatives (Ilex Press, 2012). Robin co-hosts the podcast Planet Poetry, now in its fourth season, and she compiles a (free) quarterly list of poetry magazines’ submissions windows. Her first full collection, The Mayday Diaries, is forthcoming from Pindrop Press in 2024. Her ‘other life’ is in choral singing; she is co-director of The Lewes Singers. robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk
Imogen Harris is a graduate from the Oxford University Creative Writing Masters program. She is a freelance writer and a publicist in the art industry, as well as an award-winning voice performer for the production company Rusty Quill.
Peter Kenny co-hosts the Planet Poetry podcast with Robin Houghton. Poetry publications include Sin Cycle (e.ratio, New York 2020) The Nightwork (Telltale Press 2014) and A Guernsey Double (2010, Guernsey Arts Commission). His dark fiction short stories have appeared in Supernatural Tales, Horla, Frogmore Papers – and several US publications. His six comedy plays, include A Glass of Nothing, performed in Brighton and Edinburgh. An ongoing collaboration with classical composer Dr Matthew Pollard has resulted in high-concept pieces such as This Concert Will Fall In Love With You (2010) findable on Spotify.
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