Following the appointment of our latest director, John Riches, we launched a new style newsletter in October 2004 in which we announced a series of exciting developments including a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to archive our collection and the initiation of a major project to document some of the lesser-reported faiths in the city. This first issue also included a page, now a regular feature, on the My Brighton and Hove website, Brighton and Hove's living history.

The second edition in February 2005 reported on the launch of Missing the Nile, a book produced in collaboration with members of the city's Sudanese community and Brighton & Hove Council's Adult and Community Learning Unit. It also confirmed our collaboration with Brighton and Hove Museums service and The Foundation Programme to work with rough sleepers to document their stories and experiences.

The QueenSpark June 2005 newsletter confirmed our securement of two-year funding from Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts programme. It also welcomed Sarah Hutchings, our new Marketing and Readership Manager and featured Alt-History the result of a writing competition to create fictional 'histories' of Brighton and Hove based around real places and events from the city’s recent and distant past.

In October 2005 we announced that Buki projects had joined QueenSpark in order to co-ordinate the Archive Education Pack - and, of course, we promoted our 2006 calendar! We also launched a sequel to Alt-History - a new competition to create a book entitled Alt-Future comprising of fictional futures as imagined by 'creative' residents of this creative city.

Our current newsletter previews our latest titles Bangla Brighton, Alt Future and The Faith Project. It also reports on many other exciting projects that are coming to fruition including a new website for all aspects of Brighton and Hove literature.