The Hastings Writers Workshop

Workshops include discussions on elements of writing craft, writing exercises and feedback sessions, while each writer also receives two full editorial critiques each term. A friendly, supportive atmosphere is guaranteed, and the workshops are suitable for writers working in any form, and of all levels of experience, including those just beginning their writing journey. We now also offer a poetry workshop run by Lewis Todd, poet and co-organiser of The Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival, and each group offers two reduced price places for unwaged participants or those on a low income.

I’m a writer, editor and translator from Belfast. My short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications and been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain, Wasafiri, Fish, and Bath short story prizes. I’m the editor of Short Fiction journal, and have an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, University of London. I won the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize for Literary Translation, and my translation of “O Amor Dos Homens Avulsos” (“The Love of Singular Men”) by the Brazilian author Victor Heringer will be published by Peirene Press in 2023.