27 March 2018
The 2018 Cheltenham Poetry Festival is nearly upon us, and UoG students will be leading the way. We’re proud to be kicking off the Festival with two great events. On Wednesday 18th April, we’re bringing the Bar Room…
Read more19 February 2018
Submissions are closed and the team are busy reading your work. Watch this space! See you on the other side. The Singularity Team
Read more21 January 2018
The Creative Writing Society have released the first dates for open mic nights this year! If you missed the launch party on Thursday 18th January at the Frog & Fiddle, don’t worry there will be one each month…
Read more18 January 2018
Here at Creative Writing High Command, we’re weirdly sniffy about New Year’s Resolutions. We double our peanut-butter intake, cancel gym memberships out of spite, and indulge in small but satisfying acts of vandalism, like putting next door’s recycling…
Read more11 December 2017
That’s right, folks: the much-anticipated moment has arrived, and we will officially be launching this year’s University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing anthology, Shadows: New Writing VI this Wednesday, December 13th. The doors open at 6.30 for drinks and…
Read more30 November 2017
Following on from our previous announcement about this year’s anthology launch, we’re pleased to follow it up with equally exciting news: the shortlist for this year’s UoG Novel Writing Contest is here. The six worthy contenders have had…
Read more28 November 2017
The Creative Writing department are delighted to announce that we will be putting on a special dramatic writing event in February 2018 in collaboration with V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Our students will perform…
Read more25 November 2017
It’s that time of year: the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. The world is sinking into an extended twilight…and the shadows are falling. That’s right, folks: this year’s UoG Creative Writing anthology, Shadows:…
Read more20 November 2017
We’re pleased to share this call for entries to the inaugural Vineleaves short story competition. Vineleaves is a new publishing business launched by one of our Master’s students, Carina Mitchell. To be eligible for the competition, you must…
Read more6 November 2017
This Tuesday, 7th November, don’t miss the launch of the latest edition of the Creative Writing student magazine, Show, Don’t Tell. Issue 12 is hot off the press and free to everyone who comes along to Smokey Joe’s Cafe at…
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