UPSTAIRS PLANET : A film About Cleaners From Venus – West Hampstead Arts Club, Thu 2 Jul 2026 - Funny, moving and entertaining, Upstairs Planet is a story about cult 80s musician who has influenced ma...

To celebrate the paperback launch of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal and his new poetry colletion, Robin Ince returns to Kings Place with a show about standing up and standing out.

Virginia Betts is an author, tutor and actor from Ipswich in the UK.

I've signed the National Autistic Society's open letter because I won’t let baseless claims distract me from the real issues autistic people are facing. Will you join the #TruthItMatters campaign and ...

I’m concerned that changes to Access To Work could take away the ability of many people with disabilities to be able to work independently. Often the payments are not huge, but they make a huge differ...

I’m concerned that changes to Access To Work could take away the ability of many people with disabilities to be able to work independently. Often the payments are not huge, but they make a huge differ...

If you don’t know Etchy, you’ll know someone like him.  He’s in the corner of the pub when we enter, and I put on a smile that’s tight around the edges. Etchy’s a couple of pints in already, t…

Each morning, my wife stands by the sink. I place the small white pill on my tongue, swallow two mouthfuls of water, then open my mouth…tongue raised, mouth empty. Some mornings we say nothing. Oth…

If you don’t know Etchy, you’ll know someone like him.  He’s in the corner of the pub when we enter, and I put on a smile that’s tight around the edges. Etchy’s a couple of pints in already, t…

I’m pressing my good ear against today’s walk because I lost my keys. I can hear them jangling with every step, and the gulls are crying: Where did you have them last? Where did yo…

As the garage door inched upward, it revealed the collection of a life complete. Boxes, bins, bags. A vignette of time represented by poorly labelled mementoes now piled in a dank, musty storage sp…

Aldo slid into the driver’s seat. Brought the sweet new Volvo to a low purr. He was on a tight time schedule but couldn’t resist leaning back and breathing in that new car smell.  Marvelled t…

The once marital home now entombed in the past ghostly hands that hold tight preventing all thoughts of escape clutch tightly onto lost dreams that flutter and fade dust fairies in the wind caught …

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Some people say they lose their spark with the end of an era, an addiction, but I lost my shadow. I stare up at dusk’s spiral clouds like I’m waiting for a cyclone that won’t come. Like I’m a fiend…

This other me awaits recovery; FREE RESCUE  from the cold, hard shoulder; hoping for discovery. This other me Is the long, thin, foetal twin who crawls beneath my skin, underneath my sleep, gr…

Some people say they lose their spark with the end of an era, an addiction, but I lost my shadow. I stare up at dusk’s spiral clouds like I’m waiting for a cyclone that won’t come. Like I’m a fiend…

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Hello there! I’m Virginia Betts, the newest member of the editing team and I’d like to begin my journey by making a call for submissions to be published in the online zine. I was absolu…

Local author Virginia Betts’ new book Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets is a gritty, dark tale of four friends, is set in Ipswich and takes us from the late 1970s punk era up to the present day.In c

I am happy to publish some of the reviews I have found on my books on Amazon. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to leave a review so far and talk bit about why it is so i…