28 October 2022
The 2023 University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing Anthology is open for submissions. We are looking for stories, poetry, dramatic writing, and graphic storytelling pieces that fall under the theme of A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. The topic gives you…
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…
24 October 2016
Huge congratulations to our own Tyler Keevil, prolific author and Course Leader for the BA in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire, whose third novel has been purchased by Harper Collins imprint The Borough Press. Tyler’s new…
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…
1 May 2016
With all this poetry fun going on, what with the forthcoming Cheltenham Poetry Festival and various other events, we figured our prose writers might be feeling a bit left out. Well, fear not: it’s that…
2 July 2015
Today saw the launch of The Secret Baby Room, a new novel by UoG lecturer D.D. Johnston. Johnston has recently been described by The Morning Star as one of the country’s most versatile novelists, and certainly this book is far…
4 January 2015
Welcome back to all our students and warmest winter greetings to all our graduates! We hope everyone has had a relaxing and fun festive season (sorry about the assessment deadlines), and we hope 2015 is bringing you happiness….
5 November 2014
On Saturday we blogged about Tyler Keevil, the University of Gloucestershire’s BA Course Leader for Creative Writing, being shortlisted for the prestigious Writers’ Trust of Canada Journey Prize. Well… he’s only gone and won it! Congratulations to Tyler…
1 November 2014
Happy news, fellow writers. As the man himself would say, we’re all super-excited for Tyler Keevil. The BA course leader has been shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Journey Prize for his story ‘Sealskin.’ The Journey Prize…