Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 8th June 2023, featuring David Bradford (prose), Rachel Playforth (poetry) and Sophie Anderson (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).
David Bradford
David Bradford, a writer and editor, was raised in Laughton and currently lives in Lewes. He pursued his education in English at the University of Sussex and began his career as a journalist in 2004. However, his life took a different turn when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative sight condition, at the age of 24 in 2006. In response to his condition, David returned to the University of Sussex and studied for a Master’s degree in Creative and Critical Writing, focusing his thesis on portrayals of sight loss and blindness in literature and philosophy. He is fitness editor at Cycling Weekly magazine.
Rachel Playforth
Rachel Playforth is a poet, editor, medical librarian and crossword compiler from Lewes. She is a member of the Frogmore Press editorial committee and co-edited Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in magazines including Envoi, Finished Creatures and The High Window, and in anthologies including These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS (Fairacre Press, 2020) and Night Feeds and Morning Songs (Orion, 2021). Her most recent project is Twitten, a poem sequence exploring the steep ups and downs of Lewes. The twelve poems can be navigated online, accompanied by photographs and an interactive map: https://rachelplayforth.com/twitten/
Sophie Anderson
Sophie Anderson enjoyed a career in TV production before working with her husband to set up an online software business but neither scratched that creative itch to tell a story, so she enrolled on a creative writing course and wrote her first novel The Butterfly Garden which was published in 2021. Her second novel The Sapphire Cove came out the following year in 2022 and she has just finished writing her third book. Sophie lives in Arlington, East Sussex with her husband and four children.
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