Highlights of the 2007 autumn festival include popular TV actress Paula Wilcox playing acerbic New York wit Dorothy Parker in a show with live music set in a New York bar.

In another first, internationally renowned playwright Howard Barker, with 10 actors from his ensemble The Wrestling School, offers a preview of a new work-in-progress, Actress With An Unloved Child.

Ingenious writer, musician, broadcaster, cartoonist and visual artist Peter Blegvad will lead guided tours of The Milk Museum.

Writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown presents Nowhere to Belong - Tales of an Extravagant Stranger, her autobiographical one woman show about her Ugandan Asian upbringing and lifelong love of Shakespeare.

The Dogfather of performance poetry Adrian Mitchell will perform in a pub on his 75th birthday.

And artist Peter Messer talks audiences inside the world of his hallucinatory Lewes paintings at the launch of a book, On The Way To Work, that collects the best of them.

Lewes Live Lit is known for its innovative programming and draws an audience from across the south east region and features writers, artists and musicians from across the globe.

Artistic Director and founder Mark Hewitt comments: 'Lewes Live lit is not a conventional literature or book festival and we make no apologies for that. We offering a distinctively curated, diverse programme with an independent approach. This year is set to be one of our best.'

Events will be held at Pelham House, The Royal Oak and Lewes Town Hall.

Tickets are available from the Lewes Lit website, the Brighton Dome Box Office on 01273 709709 and Rik's Discs in Lewes.

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• http://www.leweslivelit.co.uk