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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

April 23, 2025
Stroud Short Stories - Keep on Movin'
TICKETS, priced at £12, for the 29th Stroud Short Stories event, Keep on Movin' on the theme of journeys are now on sale from the Cotswold Playhouse website  Keep on Movin' takes place at the Cotswold Playhouse in Stroud on Sunday 11 May at 7.30. Doors are at 7.00. There is an interval and a bar...
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April 21, 2025
Writers' news - Cheryl Burman
River Witch, by Forest of Dean author Cheryl Burman, has been awarded a gold medal in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Awards. This is the second award for the book, and Cheryl was particularly pleased with this latest as submissions are judged by plain old readers to the long list stage. River Witch is Boo...
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April 19, 2025
POETRY TOGETHER - Calling All Gloucestershire Poets!
Poetry Together is a National Initiative which aims to bring children, 5-16, and older people together to share the pleasure of poetry. In the last two years Frank McMahon has worked with two Primary Schools to create poems on the themes of Happiness and then Friendship and then share them with audi...
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April 18, 2025
Watercolour Portraits Beginners Workshop with Jacky Pearson
Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June, 9.30 am - 5 pm Mornings 9.30am-10.30am - sketching  quick figures and faces out and about in cafes/park. 11am - Meet at The Strand Pub, upstairs studio To book jacky@jackypearson.co.nz...
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April 17, 2025
Crumps Barn - call for submission for anthology, Locomotion.
Crumps Barn are planning a new anthology on the theme of rail travel to celebrate 200 years since the first steam-hauled train carried passengers and are inviting short stories, memoir and poetry.  The submission deadline is 29 May.  More information on their website...
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April 17, 2025
University of Bristol Theatre Collection - Kevin Elyot Award
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection is delighted to announce that we are now welcoming applications for the Kevin Elyot Award 2025, created in memory of the acclaimed actor and writer. The Kevin Elyot Award is an annual award of £3,000 given to support a writer-in-residence based at the ...
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