17 March 2014
The Cheltenham Poetry Festival is back with another brilliant line-up for 2014. The festival will run from 28th March to 6th April, and once again it will star many poets with connections to the University of Gloucestershire. The…
9 February 2014
Do you ever get spam from weird speciality dating sites? For some reason I’m particularly targeted by adverts promising me the chance to date men in uniform. Well, this Monday, the open mic series at the University of…
29 January 2014
Professor Tim Ingold is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is one of our most influential and innovative thinkers on…
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…
7 December 2013
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…
2 December 2013
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…
19 November 2013
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…
13 October 2013
Cheltenham, beware: this Thursday, 17th October, the Creative Writing mob will be let loose. It’s the first Creative Writing Society social event of the year, and it promises to be a cracker. The Plan? Students will be meeting…
6 October 2013
A cult Canadaian author is appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and this time we’re not talking about Tyler Keevil’s gig this Tuesday: Douglas Coupland, the author of international bestseller Generation X, is on a rare visit from…
30 September 2013
It’s officially on: the event in the tent, the argy-bargy in the marquee, the affray in Montpellier, the… Call it what you will, Tyler Keevil V D.D. Johnston, refereed by Martin Randall, is happening. They won’t be boxing,…