27 February 2012
Playwrights from the University of Gloucestershire are inviting the public to staged readings of their work at The Parabola Arts Centre on Friday 9th March. Below, Claire Holland reports on their preparations: Last Friday, myself and my peers…
24 February 2012
The deadline for the Jo Powell Memorial Competition is coming up fast – submissions are being accepted until March 2. The competition has been organized by students at Edge Hill University, in memory of their lecturer. The contest…
24 February 2012
Creative Writing Lecturer Tyler Keevil’s latest piece of speculative fiction has been published by the British SF magazine, Interzone. The story, ‘Fearful Symmetry,’ deals with themes of conservation and survival in a dystopian future. Locus Online has reviewed…
21 February 2012
Lucy Tyler reviews Alan Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch: a laugh-out-loud satire of a security-obsessed Britain, which will have special resonance for those theatre-goers young enough to remember when they were mistaken for Britain’s ‘feral youth’. When it comes to…
20 February 2012
The next Creative Writing students’ open mic night will be held at the Frog and Fiddle pub this Tuesday. In keeping with the theme of brevity, let’s keep this announcement short: gather at 7:30 for an 8pm kick…
13 February 2012
Samantha Mitschke, a playwright and postgraduate student at Birmingham University, will be talking at the University on the 8th of March. She will be discussing Holocaust theatre, stage adaptations of Anne Frank’s diary (and the rights surrounding its…
7 February 2012
The deadline for the 2012 University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing Anthology, Smoke, is now just one month away. To be considered for publication, submissions must reach us by midnight on March 7th. We are inviting students to submit…