Tuesday 27 January 6-8pm

The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD

In our first event of the year, author and psychotherapist Emily Howse will be joining us as we explore intimacy in our writing - how we express physical, emotional, psychological and sexual closeness on the page - and maybe even with ourselves and our reader?

Emily will be sharing from her debut The Painters Daughters, which delves into a closely intertwined sister relationship, and give us a sneak peek from her soon-to-be-published second novel, Mrs Dickens.

Tuesday 24 February, 6-8pm

The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD

How do you write a compelling thriller that grabs your reader and keeps them on tenterhooks until the final page? Or maybe, your story needs some elements of suspense and intrigue that you can't quite identify or plot. Helping us discern what makes a reader shiver with anticipation/dread is SJ Watson, a master of the psychological thriller and author of three novels, including his smash hit debut Before I Go to Sleep, which has sold more than 6 million copies and been published in more than 40 languages.

Tuesday 25 November 2025 6-8pm

Described as the ‘Queen of family drama’, bestselling author Amanda Prowse will be joining us in November. Amanda is the author of an astonishing 31 novels across multiple genres, two non-fiction titles, and several short stories. Her books sell in the millions. Her latest page-turner, Ever After is out now. She’s also a frequent TV panellist and she podcasts and blogs.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 6-8pm

The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD

In light of The Salt Path controversy, it seems there is much to discuss.

To unpick the continuing value of memoir and the choices a writer makes sharing their life on the page, Vybarr Cregan-Reid memoirist, speaker and broadcaster, and author of We Are What We Read: a life without and within books, and Footnotes: how running makes us human, will be travelling down from York where he teaches at York St John University.

Tuesday 30 September2025 , 6-8pm  

The Walrus, Ship Street

If you have ever wondered how to write propulsive, grab you and don’t-let-you-go story lines that take you high and low, the incredible Pete Lawson is going to explain how.

Pete has written more than 250 episodes of Eastenders, as well as Casualty, The Afternoon Play, London Bridge and Capital Lives, and created and wrote Being April for BBC1. He is also a long term supporter of RWC and chair of Brighton-based young writers' charity Little Green Pig.