Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 10th April 2025, featuring Jo Gatford (prose), Olly Todd (poetry), and Nick Hanna (prose).
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).
Jo Gatford is a short writer who writes (mostly) short things. Her work has most recently been published by The Fiction Desk, HAD, Flash Frog, and was selected for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions 2024. She is also a novelist, poet and scriptwriter, and edits other people’s words for her supper. Read her work at jogatford.com, join in with workshops, courses and exercises at The Joy of Fixion, and find her on various socials @jmgatford.
Olly Todd is a former pro-skater from West Cumbria. His poems have appeared in Ambit, The Rialto, Prototype and The Forward Book of Poetry, as well as Radio 3’s The Verb. His pamphlet ‘Odeum Spotlights’ appeared in 2018 with Rough Trade Books. His debut collection, ‘Out for Air’ (Penned in the Margins, 2022), was nominated for the Rathbone Folio Prize and featured in The Guardian’s best poetry roundup. A second collection is forthcoming in 2025 with Broken Sleep Books. He lives with his daughters in East Sussex.
Nick Hanna was a travel writer and photographer for 25 years working for publishers including National Geographic, the Sunday Times, and Conde Nast. He is the author of 14 non-fiction books, mostly travel guides but also including The Greenpeace Book of Coral Reefs and The Art of Diving. His best-selling book was The Rough Guide to the Millenium. After retiring from travel writing, Nick (along with his wife Kim) hosted meditation and writing retreats at their home in rural East Sussex. He’s also a committed cycle campaigner and the founder of Hastings Urban Bikes and Sussex Greenways. Nick completed New Writing South’s Creative Writing Programme in Hastings in 2017 and is currently writing a novel.
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