8 December 2013
Pitt Festive All this Tuesday 10th December will feature poetry from University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing PhD student, Dani Schlosser. The show starts at 7:30pm at the Pittville Bar on New Barn Lane in Cheltenham. So if you…
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That’s right, University of Gloucestershire Creative Writers (and friends) – Christmas party time! It’s this Monday the 9th December, Kicking off at 7:30pm at the FCH Campus Student Union bar. After partaking of pleasingly affordable SU beverages, the…
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The theme of the next open mic night is The Nightmare Before Christmas. No, we’re not talking HM4050; we’re talking vengeful Santas, killer reindeer, that kind of thing. If you can’t be bothered dressing up as a psychopathic…
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The acclaimed American professor Jack Zipes will be delivering a public lecture – The Grimness of Contemporary Fairy Tales – at FCH Campus on Wednesday 20th November. Zipes is famous for his brilliant Marxist and feminist analyses of…
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There’s an open mic this Tuesday (19th November), and the theme – brace yourself – is fantasy. It’s being hosted by Alice Rowan, and fancy dress is ‘welcome but not compulsory’. If you do fancy getting orced up,…
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The NAWE Young Writer’s Hub is looking for submissions from writers under 25 on the theme of revolution, for its latest issue of its e-zine Myths of the Near Future. University of Gloucestershire students have had success with their…
Read more17 November 2013
We’ve had a few new staff publications recently. First and foremost, part-time Creative Writing lecturer Rowan Middleton has had his latest work published in the prestigious London Magazine, the UK’s oldest cultural journal. Rowan’s poem ‘Corn Dolly’ uses the…
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Aspiring writers might want to check out the numerous auctions taking place on the Authors For The Philippines website. The goal is to raise money for the Red Cross’s Typhoon Haiyan Appeal. To that end, all kinds of writing-related goodies…
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As a follow-up to our post from last week, we wanted to announce that three of our third year students have now had their work published on Michelle McGrane’s poetry blog, Peony Moon. The poems include Caitlin Clarke’s…
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Time to get dressed up and celebrate: the Big Graduation Social starts at 7:30pm, at The Railway pub, this Thursday (7th November)! All years are very welcome – nay, demanded – to attend, and whether you’ve been to…
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