Launch issue — October 2005
Although based in Hastings and St.Leonards-on-Sea, we hope that the magazine, by the quality of its writing, will extend its reach beyond the town limits and become a beacon of imaginative research and comment. We hope to enliven and expand on the local reading material currently available and make our magazine attractive to residents and passers-through alike. Both history and humour will find a place with us. The Hastings Trawler will certainly trawl hitherto unexplored areas of our history. But on deck there will also also be room for argument and discussion on issues that affect our lives here and now, the evolution and modernisation of Hastings. Over the coming months and years we hope to engage in every aspect of interest with interviews, in-depth features, commentary,politics both large and small and even a little fiction.