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Fire Anthology, launch and after-party, on Thu 27th February

You are cordially invited to the launch of the University of Gloucestershire’s brilliant new anthology of Creative Writing, Fire. Join us on Thursday 27th for a wine reception at FCH Campus, with readings from the book and refreshments,…

Professor Tim Ingold, guest lecture at the University of Gloucestershire this Friday

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…

Cheltenham Pitt Festive All: An evening of poetry and music, this Tuesday

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…

Professor Jack Zipes speaking at the University of Gloucestershire this Wednesday

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…

Cheltenham Literature Festival – Free tickets for Douglas Coupland tonight

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…

Keevil V Johnston: The Event in the Tent – Tuesday 8th October

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,…

Alumi News – keeping up with our poets

We’re always keen to hear what our graduates are up to – we miss you! – so if you studied creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and have writing news to share in our alumni updates (or…

Professor McLoughlin’s Inaugural Lecture

Nigel McLoughlin, Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, will deliver his inaugural lecture this Wednesday. His lecture – Writing Poetry: Experiments in Language With Language – will discuss how poetry functions as a means…

Curtain Descends on Smoke Rings

After months of writing and weeks of rehearsals, Smoke Rings, the play co-authored by third-year playwrights at the University of Gloucestershire, has run to full houses and critical acclaim. After every show sold out, an additional matinee performance…

Drama collaboration with The Everyman Theatre

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…