Creative Writing
Welcome to the blog for Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.
Welcome to the blog for Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.
15 February 2021
VOICES As a society we all have VOICES. As individuals we use our voices to communicate, inspire and more. This can be reflected in our storytelling – a way of using our unique voices to communicate with the…
Read more5 October 2020
CW: Phil, hi and a huge welcome to the Creative Writing blog at University of Gloucestershire, your old haunt! We know that congratulations are in order as you’ve just published your first novel! How does it feel to…
Read more22 September 2020
CW: Hi Pam, a huge welcome to the Creative Writing blog at University of Gloucestershire! To start with, could you please introduce yourself to our readers? Your connection with the university goes back a few years now, doesn’t…
Read more17 September 2020
Creative Writing department at University of Gloucestershire is delighted to welcome another fantastic industry guest for a chat with our students. Jonathan Edwards’s first collection,My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book…
Read more7 September 2020
Creative Writing department at the University of Gloucestershire is delighted to announce that, on Monday 5 October, poet Tania Hershman will be giving a guest lecture to a combined group of undergraduate students on HM6101 The Business of…
Read more11 August 2020
CW: Claire, hi, thanks so much for joining us on the Creative Writing blog at University of Gloucestershire. Could you tell us a little bit about your connections with this department? Hi Senja, yes I joined UoG as…
Read more16 July 2020
July is the time when universities in the UK find out how well they have done in the previous year, in the opinion of the only people who really count and that’s the students. Yes, we’re talking about…
Read more20 June 2020
100 words a day…..could you do it? Could you write 100 words every single day, for a month, as an exercise in disciplined creativity? 7,000,000 words have been written in this way, over the last 19 years. It’s…
Read more17 June 2020
Us writers are not always the most sociable of creatures. Many of us confess to a worrying ability to spend scary amounts of time on our lonesome, stuck indoors and (hopefully!) writing, or if not writing then at…
Read more9 March 2020
Just three weeks until submissions close for this year’s HUMAN Anthology. If you haven’t submitted yet and want to, but are struggling to think of something to write, here are a few seeds to throw down on that…
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