Category Archive:   Literature


On Wednesday 8th June from 7.30pm you can join authors Isabel Ashdown, Gabrielle Kimm and Jane Rusbridge at Chichester Library’s Orange Prize for Fiction Evening. The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and [...]

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Name: Melanie Penycate Business: Forge Gallery Location: Walberton, Near Arundel, West Sussex Website: www.forgegallerywalberton.co.uk Tell us about your background: From when I could first write, I seem to have kept myself company with pen and paper, and it increased in intensity at times of crisis. Through the changing years of childhood and adolescence there is [...]

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Katy Lassetter relished the very first World Book Night by going out and meeting three bookish folk from the Chichester area who were selected as book-givers for this year’s event and were each celebrating by giving books in their own unique way. She spoke to a published writer, an arts and crafts buff and a [...]

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Pegasaurus Publishing: Sussex’s newest publishing company Pegasaurus Publishing are a local company, run by 25 year old, Chichester resident, Katie Ramsay who formed the company last year in the midst of a recession. ‘I was struggling to find a job and so I decided that I had nothing to lose, so why not set up [...]

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Name: Debra Swinley Business: Debra Swinley Timeless Stories Location: Fontwell, West Sussex Website: www.debraswinley.com   Tell us about your background: I grew up in a military family in America, moving from California to Hawaii. I always had a passion for the past and fairy tales and went on to gain a BA in History and [...]

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Evolving English FREE Exhibition at the British Library Open until April 3rd 2011 Visit the first ever exhibition to explore the English language in all it’s national and international diversity. In this ground-breaking exhibition, the roots of Old English, slang dictionaries, medieval manuscripts, advertisements and newspapers from around the world come together – alongside everyday [...]

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Pallant House Gallery Magazine 21 Accompanies the exhibition  ‘Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna’, ‘Surrealism in Sussex’ and ‘Francisco Toledo: Papalotes’ that took place at the Pallant House Gallery in June of this year. For more about the Surreal Friends exhibition go here: Surreal Friends Exhibition Source and copyright: Pallant House Gallery [...]

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