{"id":1822,"date":"2014-05-25T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2014-05-25T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T19:06:22","slug":"kudos-for-our-teaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/05\/25\/kudos-for-our-teaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos for our Teaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/poetry-archive-logo.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1838\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/poetry-archive-logo.png?resize=116%2C107&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Poetry Archive Logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>The Creative Writing department had a couple bits of good news over the past few weeks.\u00a0 First up, Professor Nigel McLoughlin&#8217;s work has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/\">Poetry Archive<\/a>.\u00a0 Founded by poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Motion\">Andrew Motion<\/a> and producer Richarde Carrington, the archive is a web-based digital library that contains recordings of poets reading their own work.\u00a0 The project was started in 1999 and went live in 2005.\u00a0 The site has over 3 million visitors a year, and includes recordings by such luminaries as W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, and Carol Anne Duffy.\u00a0 Nigel&#8217;s page is available to peruse (and listen to) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/poet\/nigel-mcloughlin\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/wales-book-of-the-year.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/wales-book-of-the-year.png?resize=490%2C115&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wales Book of the Year\" width=\"490\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Secondly, lecturer Tyler Keevil&#8217;s recent novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myriadeditions.com\/The-Drive\"><em>The Drive<\/em><\/a>, has been shortlisted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/walesbookoftheyear.co.uk\/2014-award\/\">Wales Book of the Year 2014<\/a>, in the English language fiction category.\u00a0 <em>The Drive<\/em>, an epic road trip adventure set in the Pacific Northwest, was given the nod alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/francescarhydderch.com\/\">Francesca Rhydderch&#8217;<\/a>s debut novel,<em> The Rice Paper Diaries<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/applications.bathspa.ac.uk\/staff-profiles\/profile.asp?user=academic\/hadt1\">Tessa Hadley&#8217;<\/a>s <em>Clever Girl<\/em>. The announcement broadcast is available to view online <a href=\"http:\/\/walesbookoftheyear.co.uk\/2014-wales-book-of-the-year-short-list-click-here-to-watch-the-announcement\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 All nominees are also eligible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/whats-on\/arts-culture-news\/peoples-choice-award-vote-wales-7079103#.U4B2N0Y9VCQ.facebook\">People&#8217;s Choice Award<\/a>, and the winners of each category, as well as the overall winner, will be be announced on July 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Writing department had a couple bits of good news over the past few weeks.\u00a0 First up, Professor Nigel McLoughlin&#8217;s work has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious Poetry Archive.\u00a0 Founded by poet Andrew Motion and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,251,376],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awards-and-achievements","tag-nigel-mcloughlin","tag-tyler-keevil"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}