21 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…
6 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…
8 May 2017
All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Mathias’s splendid reign as open mic host. Mathias will be graduating this summer, and so Tuesday’s event – the Gold Edition Open Reading – which starts at…
14 February 2017
What better way to spend Valentine’s than at the Creative Writing Society’s fantastic ‘Red Edition’ open mic night? OK, I can think of a few (a moonlit walk through Montmartre with Albert Camus, for instance), but the chances…
9 February 2017
A quick last-minute announcement about a event this evening: the wonderfully named ‘Flasher’s Club’ open mic is back, and will be held at Smokey Joe’s from 7.30. Here’s the lowdown, from their blog: Flashers’ Club is a quarterly…
31 October 2016
The good people at the Creative Writing Society have organised the second open mic night of the year, and it’s at Smokey Joe’s tomorrow (Tuesday 1st Nov) from 7pm. It’s an orange night. Bowler hats, flute bands, the sash…
30 September 2016
That’s right, folks: the first Creative Writing Society Open Mic of the 2016-17 Academic year is happening next week, on Monday October 3rd. These events are now a staple of the UoG programme and a lot of fun…
2 May 2016
Don’t panic – it’s not the last one ever, but it will be the last one this academic year. Of course, for some people who are finishing their degrees before moving away, it may indeed be the last one,…
10 April 2016
This Tuesday the Creative Writing Society is hosting what promises to be a brilliant Open Reading. It will be the last of the Semester (and thus the very last for some of our 3rd years – which is…
8 December 2015
Ladies and gentlemen (and all you ruffians too), it’s the last Creative Writing open mic night of 2015! It’s tonight (Tuesday 8th December), and the theme is Christmas (other theisms and anti-theisms are available). So whether you’re bringing Xmas cheer…