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Competition 2025

Our 2025 Writing Competition is open 1st January - 31st May. Our Prose Judge this year is Jamila Gavin and our Poetry Judge is Kate Potts. Enter for a chance to read your work at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

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Gloucestershire Writers’ Network is the hub for all writers and writing groups in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire. We aim to be the ‘go to place’ for Gloucestershire writers – providing a central platform to communicate news, views, what’s on and competitions etc.

If you have information on forthcoming events, courses, readings or open mics that deserve a wider audience, 
we’d love to hear from you.
We will upload relevant information as quickly as we can to help market and communicate your events.

Do you have a story to tell? Perhaps you have recently won a competition or have a book launch on the horizon – our News and Events Calendar section will keep GWN members abreast of local events and encourage attendance and access to all things creative. Please contact us on admin@gloswriters.org.uk.

Happy writing!

Journeys 2023 Competition Flyer

2023 Competition Results

Click below to see this year's winners. Thank you to all who entered the competition and to our judges Jane Bailey and Philip Rush.

You can buy a copy of our competition anthology here

We will be launching our 2024 competition on the theme of Weather in January
Click here to see the winnersBuy this year's anthology

Our Annual Gloucestershire Writing Competition

We run an annual Poetry and Prose writing competition in conjunction with The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, the winners of which have the opportunity to read their work at the GWN Prizewinners event. Information about our 2025 competition here.

Click here to buy our anthologies to read the work of previous winners.

With thanks to our Sponsors:

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We are grateful to The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival for their support of local writers and for creating the opportunity for the winners and the runners-up of our annual writing competition to showcase their work at the GWN event.
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We would like to thank Liggy Webb for her generous sponsorship of our annual writing competition.
www.liggywebb.com
Edges - GWN Writing Competition 2025

The Latest News & Reviews

March 31, 2025
CREATIVE WRITING OPEN MIC, SATURDAY 12TH APRIL
You are invited to the re-launch of the University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing Open Mic on Saturday 12th April from 7-9pm at Smokey Joe's, Cheltenham. You can come to read your own work, or simply to enjoy some brilliant 'spoken word' across a number of genres, enjoy the company of other wr...
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March 31, 2025
THE RED DRESS: CONVERSATIONS IN STITCH
The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch is the much-anticipated book bringing together voices from The Red Dress global collaborative embroidery project created by British artist Kirstie Macleod and contributed to by 380 individuals from 51 countries over 14 years from 2009–2023. It features poign...
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March 31, 2025
STROUD SHORT STORIES
Submissions for the 29th Stroud Short Stories event Keep on Movin' on the theme of journeys closed on Sunday 30 March at 23.59. Huge thanks to everyone who has submitted stories. The Long Listed and Short Listed titles will be shared with the writers who submitted stories for this event. The t...
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March 27, 2025
Lindsey Erith - talk at Cirencester Library, 6- 7pm, 10 April
Lindsey Erith has written two historical romance novels set during the English Civil War. She is currently promoting the audiobook release of her second novel, Wanton Troopers, which has been read by British actor, Clive Hayward. Following a very successful launch event in London on 25th March Linds...
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March 26, 2025
Poetry classes - Adam Horovitz
New 10 week terms of poetry classes, intermediate/advanced led by Adam Horovitz at the Trinity Rooms Community Hub in Stroud. Starts 22 and 23 April. More information and booking here  ...
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March 22, 2025
Writers' news - successes in the Mid-Somerset Festival
Three members of Dean Writers Circle were all awarded top prizes for poetry at the Mid-Somerset Festival in Bath. Celia Hinton won the Haiku trophy for 3 linked haiku, Val Ormrod was the winner for both the Sonnet prize and Poem based on a visual stimulus, and Jolie Marchant won 2nd prize in the Ope...
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