29 May 2017
The academic year here at UoG for 2016-17 is almost over, and students on Team UoG have been working hard. You’ve met all your assessment deadlines, produced over 10,000 words of work (or twice that if you’re a…
8 May 2017
All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Mathias’s splendid reign as open mic host. Mathias will be graduating this summer, and so Tuesday’s event – the Gold Edition Open Reading – which starts at…
3 May 2017
It’s certainly a busy time of year for Creative Writing students here at UoG; this week, not only are lecturers and students contributing to various events at the poetry festival (check out our blog post below), but our…
27 April 2017
It’s just one week until the Cheltenham Poetry Festival kicks off with appearances from UoG’s own D.D. Johnston and Tyler Keevil. They’ll be talking from 7pm to 8pm at Smokey Joe’s on Thursday 4th May, and you can book your tickets…
25 March 2017
Hard as it may be to believe, today is the final opportunity to submit your drama, poetry, and prose to this year’s UoG Creative Writing anthology, Shadows: New Writing VI. The submission window closes tonight at midnight! The…
21 March 2017
After a brief respite last week, we’re hoping all our students feel refreshed, recharged, and raring to write – particularly as the submission window for Shadows: New Writing VI will close at the end of the week, at…
14 March 2017
The new issue of Show, Don’t Tell is hot off the press and ready to launch! Come break a bottle across the bow at Smokey Joe’s from 7pm tonight, Tuesday 14th March. This new issue contains an interview with…
9 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…
3 March 2017
That’s right, folks: the 2017 UoG Creative Writing anthology is now open for submissions. This year the title and theme is ‘shadows’, in all its various guises. And get this: for the first time it’s open to Creative…
14 February 2017
What better way to spend Valentine’s than at the Creative Writing Society’s fantastic ‘Red Edition’ open mic night? OK, I can think of a few (a moonlit walk through Montmartre with Albert Camus, for instance), but the chances…