Month: April 2013

Writers in the News

Third-year dramatic writing students at the University of Gloucestershire have made the news with an article in today’s Gloucestershire Echo. Michael Purton’s article, “Students’ controversial smoking play to run at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre”, is available online here (the…

This Tuesday… Open Mic & Fire Deadline

This Tuesday, 30th April, there will be an open mic night at the Frog and Fiddle from 8pm. As always, this will be a chance to read your prose, poetry, and plays, and to hear what your peers…

Smoke Rings – Tickets now available online

Smoke Rings, the brilliant new play written by our third-year dramatic writers, is running at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre, from Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th of May. This unique collaboration by our talented writers, Dreamshed Theatre Company, and The…

Professor Nigel McLoughlin to deliver Cheltenham Poetry Society Annual Lecture

Tomorrow night (Thursday 18th), Nigel McLoughlin, Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, will deliver this year’s Annual Lecture for Cheltenham Poetry Society. The lecture will explore the use of metaphor in poetry and will…

Fire Anthology: Two Weeks to Submit

The new creative anthology, Fire, is still accepting submissions – but only for two more weeks. We won’t be able to accept any writing submitted after midnight on Tuesday 30th April. Fire is the follow up to last…

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

The Cheltenham Poetry Festival starts on April 20th, offering you the chance to experience poetry in all it’s manifestations: there are world class poets performing in intimate venues, exciting new fusion events which blend poetry with visual arts, workshops,…