Writers Kingston started in 2017. This is the 9th year. This was a very special event to kick things off in what is a year of flux for the centre. Friends from Japan, America and all across the UK mingled with my students and local writers. I was proud of so many of my former students, now graduated, whose work keeps growing, and is maintained, and they showed it to friends who hadn’t witnessed the community we’ve built at Kingston. It was gratifying, and an example below from Lily Ferret. All the performances and photos are here https://www.writerskingston.com/#/brut25/

https://artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/poem-brut-writers-kingston-event-92.html and at this link you can see some extraordinary portraits done by my friend Alban Low, live drawing the night