19 September 2012
Congratulations to Matthew J. Paul, whose short story ‘Temporarily Switzerland’ has this week been published in Zouch Magazine. Matt, who is entering his third year of study on the University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing BA, originally wrote the…
15 April 2012
The second annual Cheltenham Poetry Festival will be running between the 18th and the 22nd April. This year the festival will feature nearly 100 performers over five days of spoken word and live literature events. The events take…
5 April 2012
Those of you who are around over Easter may be interested in an upcoming event at the Parabola Arts Centre. Some of our Creative Writing students, third-years who are nearing the end of their course, are performing in…
7 March 2012
You are cordially invited to a performance of scripts in development at the Parabola Arts Centre this Friday (9th March). You will be treated to extracts from five plays (read script-in-hand), which have been written by third-year Dramatic…
4 March 2012
The window for submissions to the University’s Creative Writing anthology, Smoke, will close at midnight this Wednesday (7th March); please note that under no circumstances will we be able to accept submissions received after that date. Thank you to…
27 February 2012
Playwrights from the University of Gloucestershire are inviting the public to staged readings of their work at The Parabola Arts Centre on Friday 9th March. Below, Claire Holland reports on their preparations: Last Friday, myself and my peers…
30 December 2011
It’s time to wish everyone a happy new year and to review Creative Writing at The University of Gloucestershire in 2011: we think it’s been a great year. COURSE NEWS The year started with the full-time appointment of…
7 December 2011
Congratulations to Keely O’Shaughnessy whose short story ‘The Breakfast Bar’ has been selected for publication in volume six of Duality. Based in Scotland, Duality is a collaboration between writers and illustrators, which promotes new writing and artwork. Last…
1 December 2011
A spectre is haunting the University of Gloucestershire – the spectre of the Jolly Autocratic Committee. All the powers of old literature have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Eagleton and Amis, Naipaul and Theroux,…
14 November 2011
PhD student K.J. Moore will be celebrating the launch of her novella, Monster Porn (Blood Bound Books), at the Frog and Fiddle pub this Tuesday. Join us for drinks at seven and listen to the author read extracts…