UoG Student and Staff Achievements
9th March 2017
Creative Writing students and staff here at UoG have been busy this semester, and it’s high time we caught up with some of their recent achievements. First up, MA student Rachel Clements has had a new story, ‘Nostalgia Café’, accepted over at Popshot magazine. The story, developed as part of her MA coursework, will appear in April. Secondly, undergraduate student Amy Wright has landed a position writing freelance articles for SelectSpecs’ online magazine. You can check out her recent articles on what eyewear to wear on a Valentine’s Day date, or Meryl Streep’s impeccable style and specs.
Our teaching team has had recent successes, too. Dramatic Writing lecturer and author Senja Andrejevic has had a new short story, ‘Theotokos’, published over at The Scrutiny Journal. The magic realist piece is based on a Serbian legend and can be read here. Our Undergraduate Course Leader Tyler Keevil has also had a new story published, over at Somesuch Stories, which can be read here (though be warned: this one’s not for the squeamish!); in addition, Tyler recently won the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ prize, in the non-fiction category. His winning piece, ‘Swarf’, is about a workplace accident at a factory in Mid Wales, and will appear in their spring issue.
Last but certainly not least, Dramatic Writing lecturer Miranda Walker has been commissioned by CBBC to write on Series 4 of TV sketch show Diddy TV, starring Ted Robbins with Dick and Dom. In the show, Dick and Dom are the producers and presenters of their own appallingly bad TV channel, bankrolled by Larry Weinsteinberger (Ted Robbins). Each Diddy TV episode also features a guest star, such as Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, Inside No 9, League of Gentlemen).
Miranda is having a great time writing TV show parodies! Series 4 will be transmitted in 2018, but Series 3 goes out this month. You can check out the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppu_P2-FMBc