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Looking Back to When the Darts Came to Nottingham

As the British Darts Organisation World Darts Championship takes place at the Lakeside Country Club in Surrey, we look back to the first ever World Championship, which was held right here in Nottingham. Get yer arrers ready

Book Review Competition: Win a £25 Token and Get Published

We’ve teamed up with the UNESCO City of Literature squad to deliver a book review competition...

Review: East Midlands Heritage Awards 2017

The theme of the awards this year was ‘celebrating creativity’ as poets, a filmmaker, and a photographer interpreted winning entries.

Nominations are Open for The Renewal Trust Volunteer Awards 2017

Those socially conscious types at The Renewal Trust are looking for nominations for their Volunteer Achievement Awards...

Finding Headspace - Review of Making Headway's latest book launch

Living with a brain injury is a difficult and oftentimes raw experience. However, the writers and editors involved in the creation of the newest Global Words Press book Making Headway: Living with Brain Injury are willing to share their stories and inspire us all to live better and braver lives. 

Midlands Women's Aid Need Your Help

Crimbo is close, which means it’s time to get giving, and if you’re looking for a worthy cause in need of pennies we’ve got it covered. Midlands Women’s Aid, a refuge service in Notts, is looking to raise £840 to buy presents for forty children (budgeting £20 per child) and they need our help. They’ve only got till Sunday 10 December to hit their target…

Review: The 2017 Jarman Awards

The 10th anniversary edition of the Jarman Award celebrated a diverse group of artists whose work defies categorisation into any singular genre.  We headed down to Nottingham Contemporary to check out the shortlisted artists' work

The Raincoats 33 1/3 Book Launch at Rough Trade

Rough Trade hosts the launch of the 33 1/3 book on the eponymous debut album by The Raincoats. Author Jenn Pelly was joined by band members Ana da Silva and Gina Birch and friend of the band Shirley O'Loughlin who was at Rough Trade when they released the album...

Man Alive! Readings from Man Booker Prize Shortlist at Lakeside Arts

This October, the best and brightest of the literary world will be celebrated in this year's Man Booker Prize 2017. We decided to head on down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre for a reading from some of this year's shortlisted authors. 

6 Books You Need To Read This Month

Cosy up by the fire and have a good read of one of these beauties...

Catching up with former Future Sound of Nottingham winners Super Furniture

Young indie rockers on being in a band and plans for the future...

Graham Caveney on Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism and His New Book

Graham Caveney had success in the nineties as a journalist for publications like NME, The Face, The Independent, and loads more. He moved on to writing biographies of beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, then he completely disappeared. Two decades later, he’s back with a book that looks at the abuse inflicted on him as a child, by a priest: The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence…

A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books

New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...

Book Reviews: Bum Apple Freak Show and Other Stories

Here, have some words about words...

Theatre Review: The Jungle Book

The King of the Swingers arrives at Lakeside 

The Jungle Book is Coming to Nottingham Lakeside Arts

In a collaboration between Nottingham Lakeside Arts and New Street Theatre, The Jungle Book is coming to town. True to the Kipling score, and definitely not Disney, the production has an awesome new musical makeup. We speak to director of the show Martin Berry about what to expect from the bogger...

The East Midlands Flower Show at Newstead Abbey in Photos

We got down to check out the flowering talent down Lord Byron's old gaff...

Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is

One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...

Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

The Particle Beast book launch at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio

Nottingham based author, Ian Douglas, explores life on Mars in the third instalment of his teen sci-fi adventure. We headed down to the book launch at NWS, where Douglas spoke about what’s in store for Zeke Hailey in this gripping nigh-apocalyptic tale…

Young Books Run Wild: Celebrating 30 Days of British Wildlife Literature with the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

Determined to get us bookworms out and about in the sunshine, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has launched a month-long campaign to review books about all things wild. 

Theatre Review: East is East

Nottingham Playhouse transforms into 1970's Salford for Suba Das' production of East is East, starring Nottingham Television Workshop's Sabrina Sandhu...

Sabrina Sandhu Starts in East is East at Nottingham Playhouse

When the film East is East hit our screens in the late nineties, the UK was tickled and charmed, with heartstrings up and down the country receiving a right good tug. This month, the Nottingham Playhouse sees the story unfold in theatrical form, and we can’t bleddy wait. We had a chat with Television Workshop alumni Sabrina Sandhu, who plays Meenah, in her first ever interview; an honour, seeing as she’s sure to be a right star soon...

From Vilnius to Viccy Centre: Celebrating Lithuanian Literature At The Easiest Launch

It's not often we get the chance to celebrate literature from further afield. Thankfully, Noir Press have brought the best and brightest of continent to us. We went to One BC for the launch of their latest Lithuanian dark romance The Easiest. 

6 Books to get Stuck into This May

Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...