Winter Wisdom – A Festive Lecture Series
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWinter Wisdom – A Festive Lecture Series Join us at...
Source: www.glos.ac.uk. All Rights Reserved. 2025 University of Gloucestershire
Join us at our first ever Creative Writing festival at UoG’s Park Campus. Free entry.
Meet and chat with a range of established novelists, widely published poets and prize-winning playwrights – join them in themed panel discussions and visit their tables in the exhibition area.
Hear from editors of respected literary journals about how they select and support new writing, and from independent presses about how they discover and nurture emerging voices.
Take part in our free prize draw, explore the stalls, and enjoy a vibrant day celebrating writing and community – with plenty of surprises along the way.
Doors open at 9am, see an outline of the day below.
| What’s on | Time |
|---|---|
| Arrive | 9am |
| Special guest: Sophie Hannah, live video feed ‘The most important ingredient of any story’ | 9.45 – 10.15am |
| Panel 1 – Routes: Paths to publication Traditional, Indie, and everything between | 10.15 – 11.15am |
| Creative Writing Workshop* – limited to 20, by prior registration only | 10.15 – 11.15am |
| Break | 11.15 – 11.30am |
| Panel 2 – Curators: Nurturing new voices Small presses and literary journals | 11.30am – 12.30pm |
| Zine making Workshop**, collaboration with MA Illustration, by prior registration only | 11.30am – 12.30pm |
| Lunch (bring your own or purchase from our Refectory) | 12.30 – 1.30pm |
| Special talk: Studying Creative Writing and other Creative Arts at the University of Gloucestershire | 1 – 1.15pm |
| Panel 3 – Craft across forms Creative process: novels, plays, stories, poems | 1.30 – 2.30pm |
| Break | 2.30 – 3pm |
| Panel 4 – Purpose and community Why we write and who we write for, with special guest Linda Cohen from Read with Me | 3 – 4pm |
* Open to all, but particularly suitable for beginner and intermediate level writers.
**Join us for a fun, hands-on session where writers and illustrators team up to create mini handmade magazines, or zines. Using words, images, and collage, participants will experiment with combining short texts, drawings, and visual storytelling. No prior experience needed – just curiosity and a willingness to explore a new way to get creative.
Students across English and Creative Writing, local writers and reading groups, industry professionals, and anyone curious about the craft and business of the written word.
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime writer whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Her novels have been translated into 49 languages and published in 51 territories. She will join us via a live video feed, for a talk on the subject of ‘The Most Important Ingredient of Any Story’.
Email us for your free ticket.
; ?> "Visit the homepage"){kind=logo}