28 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…
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…
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…
25 November 2016
Hot on the heels of our recent post about the 2016 UoG Novel Contest Shortlist, we’re pleased to announced that this year’s annual Creative Writing anthology, Reflections: New Writing 5, will be launched in just under three weeks…
20 October 2015
A week today, on Tuesday October 27th, the UoG Writing Programme will be launching Compass: New Writing IV, the latest anthology in the New Writing series, featuring the best prose, poetry, and drama by students on our course. …
2 June 2015
As part of this weekend’s UoG Fringe, we’re delighted to announce that a few tickets remain for the premiere of Voices from the Forest – a play written collectively by MA students at the University of Gloucestershire. Students Ash Hartridge,…
9 February 2015
That’s right, folks. D-day has arrived and the deadline to submit your work to Compass, this year’s UoG Creative Writing anthology, is looming. You have until midnight tonight, when the submission window officially closes. The submissions have been…
18 December 2014
We are proud to announce the arrival of this year’s UoG Creative Writing anthology, Compass: New Writing IV. We are seeking high quality submissions of prose, poetry, and drama from any student enrolled on a Creative Writing module…
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…
29 November 2011
While prose (and some poetry) is primarily designed to be read on the page, plays are written to be performed. The best test of a play, therefore, is for it to be read by professional actors. As part…