‘Low Tide, Lunan Bay’ by Rosalie Warren


Hitting The ‘Send’ Button

 

 

‘Low Tide, Lunan Bay’ is Rosalie Warren’s second novel and I’ve been waiting for it eagerly. Her work to date shows a canny ability to draw the reader into intimate sympathy with imperfect people. Warren enters the battle that is their lives and illuminates the ‘big issues’ we are all facing out in the world right now, sometimes as surprisingly subtle influencing factors, sometimes as full-on, opposing armies. Read all »

Is The Arts Council Funding A Vanity Publisher?

Dear Editor,
Are you a vanity publisher?
Yours,
A Hopeful Author
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Misfit Mirror

Have you noticed how people judge internet-based writing in  a totally different way to works that come to them in a more traditional form? Or have you wondered about the startled reactions flash fiction receives from non-internet using readers? Read all »

Brown Jade or How to be Happy

When I was young I was aware that children were sold over the counter or even in the market place. I witnessed such a sale myself and I know of four relatives who were sold as children, isn’t that shocking! – Yong Pease Read all »

Which Six Nations? Why?

If you are a born sports person, you were no doubt born knowing the intricacies of all the popular sports but for newcomers like me, it can be a bit confusing. So, after four years of watching The Six Nations rugby with fascination and bafflement, I thought I’d put together a quick guide to the game, as it appears to an outsider: Read all »

Warning: Long Soapbox Article!

This Article started life entitled Thinking Beats Recycling, then it was renamed Little People, now it’s called Intellectual Evolution. Having failed to find a magazine that wants to publish it, I thought I’d put it here under my newly inaugurated ‘Old Witch’ category, just in case anyone is in this moodRead all »

Writers, Come Out of Your Garret and Sing!

How To be a Successful writer in the modern world - an article by Kay Green, first published in The New Writer, autumn 2007, including a discussion with Rob Woods, Hastings Town Centre Manager. Read all »

Light in the Shade

Light in the Shade

Light in the Shade: Selected Short Stories by Pam Eaves

Published by Circaidy Gregory Press Read all »

wormwood, earth and honey

wormwood, earth and honey

selected poems by Catherine Edmunds

wormwood, earth and honey

Catherine Edmunds, known around the web as delph_ambi, has appeared in a wide range of publications both electronic and paper. Her reputation is on the up, and Circaidy Gregory are very lucky to be presenting her first solo collection. Here are some of the review comments we have received… Read all »

The Music Gym

Amongst the squash courts and practice nets at Horntye Sports Centre in Hastings is the Decoda Music Gym, an area designed for experimenting and playing with music and movement. Read all »