Winter Wisdom – A Festive Lecture Series
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWinter Wisdom – A Festive Lecture Series Dates and venues...
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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 |
|---|---|
| Panel 1 – Routes: Paths to publication Traditional, Indie, and everything between | 10 – 11am |
| Panel 2 – Curators: Nurturing new voices Small presses and literary journals | 11.30am – 12.30pm |
| Lunch | 12.30 – 1.30pm |
| Outreach 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 |
| Panel 4 – – Purpose and community Why we write and who we write for | 3 – 4pm |
| Creative Writing workshop** | 3 – 4pm |
** for schools only.
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.
Email us for your free ticket.
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