The Long Song: Booker Shortlisted Novel Becomes Brighton’s Month Long Read

Brighton's City Reads initiative focuses on one book by one author – this year's selection being the Man Booker shortlisted novel, The Long Song by Andrea Levy – with the simple aim to encourage the good people of Brighton & Hove to read, discuss, debate and creatively engage with in a series of special events, workshops and performances. You can read the full article @ the Brighton Magazine's Dream Catcher section.

Claire Watkins' Virginia & The Elements story, which appeared in short form in our Dream Catcher section, has been picked up by an independent publishing house, and Claire has been asked to expand the short story into a novel. We will be blogging her progress. Check-out her story HERE.

And just time to mention that there will be Dream Catcher articles by Janet Street-Porter and Steven Berkoff real soon. One talking about The Diary Of A Juvenile Delinquent and the other talking about making and discarding friends! To find-out which is covering which topic, watch this space!

Keep checking The Dream Catcher section, or email editor@brighton.co.uk for more info.

Author In The Spotlight

As the Brighton Magazine's Dream Catcher section continues to grow (and many thanks for positive messages and helpful feedback) we present our first Brighton author under the spotlight.

Nick Burbridge is a poet and a gentleman. He's also recorded and performed with the Levellers, as well as having just let loose The Unicycle Set, his third collection of though provoking poetry. To gain a sneak under Nick's creative bonnet CLICK HERE

A Write Carry On; Fulking Friends & South Downs Connections is the second story in our Dream Catcher new writing series. After the postive feedback for Claire Watkins' Virginia & The Elements - we moved from Virginia Woolf's final home of Rodmel (near Lewes) to Fulking, which lies in the very pit of Brighton's Devil's Dyke. A Write Carry On mixes the man who wrote the Carry On screenplays with a little white witchcraft!

To view the complete Dream Catcher section CLICK HERE

The Brighton Magazine Dream Catcher Project

The Brighton Magazine's new Dream Catcher Project section is up-and-running. All under one roof you can take a peek into the life of Phil Daniels, the dark & twisted mind of Hugh Cornwell, a haunting tale of Virginia Woolf's muse, the masterstroke of language that is Invisibles, a genre-defining tale based around the rave scene, a nostalgic trip as middle-aged Mods return to the seaside .. and more besides ..

Ed Siegle's debut novel, Invisibles, ducks and dives through the scenic splendour and dark underbellies of two very different cities, as a son (Joel Burns) goes in search of a father (Gilberto) who's dead in the minds of all except one.

So begins a journey of self-discovery as Joel travels from his adopted home of Brighton to his birth city of Rio.

Virginia and the Elements: She was to be found in the schoolyard that connected the village to the church. A bitter throughway in the most unforgiving of seasons. Her view was of hills and fields, and her mind far from the hustle and bustle of busy village life. Her purpose was words. She needed to find a way out of the tunnel, that dark expanse that clouded her judgement, knocked her confidence, and gave way to damaging thoughts she knew she was almost certain never to entertain.

To read the Invisibles review and Virginia and the Elements short story in full.. visit The Dream Catcher Project.