"Everyone in Brighton is either in a band or writing a novel" was the warning I got when I first moved to Brighton.
The Brighton Moment was the night the writers all came out of their high garrets to celebrate the city they love with largely true short stories.
Hosting the whole event was television presenter-turned-author Annabel Giles who, as well as throwing in her own journey through the city, kept the whole event zipping along.
With 18 authors on the bill and a three-hour running time it was certainly a marathon of a show.
The standard of the pieces was uniformly great, with particular highlights being Tanya Murray's tale of the annual camping trip by the bisexual and transsexual swimming club of Brighton, David Bramwell's experience of a seance, Sally O'Reilly's memories of being thumped on her wedding day in the Royal Pavilion and local historian Rose Collis's account of Brighton's 1929 tidal wave.
The readings were bookended by dramatic selections from Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, spoiled only by a lack of amplification for the performers, meaning those at the back had to strain to hear.
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