17 September 2020
Creative Writing department at University of Gloucestershire is delighted to welcome another fantastic industry guest for a chat with our students. Jonathan Edwards’s first collection,My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book…
7 February 2019
Are you a former student of the University of Gloucestershire, a current student, or a member of staff? If so, we want your submissions of prose, poetry, and artwork to Heritage, a new anthology of creative writing from…
21 April 2018
Creative Writers at the University of Gloucestershire last week kicked off the 2018 Cheltenham Poetry Festival with two great events in Cheltenham bars. Scores of people attended Bar Room Bards at the Railway Inn, hearing performances of classic…
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…
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…
21 October 2016
UoG poetry students are continuing to do a great job of getting their work out into the world. 3rd year students Sam James and Taylor Edmonds have both had poems in Helen Ivory’s webzine Ink Sweat and Tears:…
6 June 2016
The sun is shining, summer is here, and it’s nearly time to head for the beach, metaphorically and actually. But before you go, we have one more brilliant day of writing-based fun. This Wednesday, 8th June, 2nd-year students…
30 April 2016
For those who are eager for poetry and can’t wait for the huge line-up of great events at next week’s Cheltenham Poetry Festival (see our previous post, and get with it!) then a brilliant warm-up event is taking…
28 April 2016
There are so many amazing events going on in the last few weeks of term we’re going to have to bombard this blog with announcements. To start with, we wanted to shout about this year’s Cheltenham Poetry Festival,…