7 May 2013
On Friday, Lucy Tyler and second-year Dramatic Writing students hosted a day of table-top and staged readings with Paul Milton, the Artistic Director of The Everyman Theatre, and a group of the theatre’s creative associates and actors. The…
Read more2 May 2013
The editors of the 2013 University of Gloucestershire anthology of Creative Writing, Fire, wish to thank everyone who has submitted work. We received more than 60 submissions and expect to publish work from 25-30 students. Please note that…
Read more30 April 2013
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…
Read more29 April 2013
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…
Read more18 April 2013
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…
Read more17 April 2013
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…
Read more16 April 2013
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…
Read more3 April 2013
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,…
Read more22 March 2013
This week Rachel Trezise, one of the young stars of the contemporary British Literature scene, came in to speak with students on our Creative Writing programme here at the University of Gloucestershire. Rachel is a novelist, short story…
Read more19 March 2013
There is a Creative Writing students’ open mic night, on Tuesday 19th, at the Frog and Fiddle pub on Cheltenham High Street. The theme this time is superheroes and supervillains, and your host will be Mr Incredible himself,…
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