Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 10th October 2024, featuring Rachel Cole (prose), John White (poetry), and Callum Murray (drama).
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).
Rachel Cole was originally an Essex Girl. She wanted to become a Sussex Woman, but on her route south she got distracted, and ended up spending twenty-four years living in France, the US, Indonesia and Sweden before eventually making her way to Lewes, where she has remained for the last twenty-four years. She studied or taught in universities in all the countries she lived in en route, and then for twenty years she taught academic writing at Sussex University. In 2015, she co-edited, with Jeremy Page, True Tales from the Old Hill (Frogmore Press). Sometime after that, partly as a result of participating in the Creative Writing course at New Writing South, she started working on a set of stories – The Lydia Stories: tales of a feminist grandmother – which are very loosely based on her experience of bringing up her children in different countries.
John White was a TV & Cross-media Director & Producer for many years. He was first published as a poet in Michael Horovitz’s seminal review New Departures. He graduated with Distinction from the London Poetry School-Newcastle University Writing Poetry MA in 2021. He has had poems in the New European, Ekphrastic Review, Alchemy Spoon, Frogmore Papers, the newbootsandpantisocracies blog, New Writing Scotland 40, Broken Sleep Masculinity Anthology and longlisted in the 2022 UK National Poetry Competition. In 2023 he was invited to read at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, poems in response to their centenary exhibition, and Natural England published a video of one of his poems online on World Poetry Day 2024.
After a career in journalism, Callum Murray has returned to where he started out, the theatre. Unfriend Me You Fiend is an excerpt from one of four plays he has written in four years. The others are The Thousand Days, Outlandish! and Rebel Rebel. All four are at various stages of production and performance. Callum’s piece will be performed by two actors: Sam Nixon graduated with a degree in drama and has toured with TIE companies and several musical productions. As well as bringing Julie Andrews to life in the 5star ‘Practically Perfect’ she has recently performed as ‘Fagin’ in Oliver Twist at Brighton Open Air Theatre and in several award-winning Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe plays. Phil Nair-Brown has performed in many productions from traditional theatre and immersive theatre through to open air theatre, as well as on screen. Phil has played leading roles in productions such as Queers, By Jeeves, Frankenstein, Blithe Spirit, Hedda Gabler, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The 39 Steps and Macbeth.
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