5 October 2011
D.D. Johnston, Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, will be talking in Cheltenham on Wednesday 12th October. The talk, billed as ‘NOT the Literature Festival,’ will cover why he can’t stand Virginia Woolf, what links James…
29 September 2011
PhD student KJ Moore, who holds a BA and MA from the University of Gloucestershire, has recently published a novella, brilliantly titled Monster Porn (Blood Bound Books). The story was originally written for her MA dissertation and received…
26 September 2011
University of Gloucestershire Post-grad student Angela France has surely won the prize for finding the most unlikely publishing outlet. If you’d said that Angela’s acclaimed poetry had recently featured in a national newspaper, my first guess would have…
20 September 2011
The Raconteur has just published a fascinating new interview with University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer Tyler Keevil. Tyler discusses a range of topics, including his opinion of e-readers, his early publications, the UK riots, and his first…
16 September 2011
Post-graduate student Angela France studied for her MA at the University of Gloucestershire and is now studying for a PhD. Her poetry has been published in many of the leading journals in the UK and abroad, and has been…
9 September 2011
We’ve just started an audio section, and you can now hear three brilliant radio plays produced by three of our up and coming playwrights. Second year dramatic writing students at the University of Gloucestershire work with radio production…
3 August 2011
University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer D.D. Johnston will be reading from his novel, Peace, Love, and Petrol Bombs, at the Edinburgh Book Fringe in August. The book has been described as a humorous and poignant coming-of-age story:…
11 July 2011
Belle Parricide, featuring University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer Lucy Tyler’s The Operators, has opened in Washington, DC to critical acclaim. The performance is comprised of five short plays that explore the historical figure of Beatrice Cenci (pictured),…
8 July 2011
University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer Tyler Keevil’s first novel, Fireball, has won the Media Wales Readers’ Prize – the popular choice for the best English language book published in Wales this year. The prize was announced at…
6 July 2011
University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer Martin Randall’s monograph on cultural responses to the September 11th attacks has this month been released by Edinburgh University Press. It’s a thoughtful and complex book, but it’s also immensely readable; Randall…