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GWN Writing Competition 

Closing Date: 31 May 2022

Read your work at The Times & The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. Prose Judge Adam Horovitz, Poetry Judge Kate Frost
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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!

Competition

We run an annual 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. Visit the competition section of the website for the latest updates, where you also have the option to purchase anthologies from previous winners.

CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR 2021 ANTHOLOGY, AVAILABLE FOR £5 (INC P+P) VIA PAYPAL.
GWN Writing Competition - Signposts 2021 Antholoy

The latest News & Reviews

May 27, 2022
Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival Talks
Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival Talks are single-venue, single-panel events, held every few months in a lovely, intimate, light and airy venue, each one with four authors sharing the stage to talk about a particular topic. The June HULF Talk is on Holiday Reads  providing the opportunity to "t...
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May 10, 2022
The Gloucester Fragments
Neil Leadbeater is an author, essayist, poet and critic based in Edinburgh. His latest collection of poems has just been published by Littoral Press and it is called 'The Gloucester Fragments'. All the poems in the book are based on people and places in the county of Gloucestershire.  If there are ...
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May 7, 2022
Submissions open for new book celebrating Gloucestershire
Publisher Tim Saunders is looking for submissions of poetry and short stories for a new book celebrating Gloucestershire. Submissions are open to anyone aged 16 and over.  Poems need to be 30 lines or under and stories must not exceed 1,000 words. The deadline is July 28, 2022 with publication sche...
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May 4, 2022
Buzzwords - 8 May 2022
  Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham Workshop lead by Cliff Yates 7pm Open mic and readings 8pm Guest poet Cliff Yates pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged. Regardless of what the government is saying, we are still in a pandemic - please continue to take precautions The Buzz...
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