The go-to place for writers in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
A paid nine‑month residency for an emerging nature writer from an underrepresented background to work with the Cotswold landscape is being offered. Through fieldwork and community engagement, the writer will create poems, essays, stories or audio pieces that deepen public connection to place. Applicants should live in one of the Local Authorities with boundaries within […]
We meet every Tuesday from 10.30 - 12.30 at the Down Ampney Village Hall. Our meeting start with picking a random subject out of an envelope and we write spontaneously on that subject for twenty minutes and then share with everyone the always incredible range of the fruits of our labours. It is always astonishing […]
Nigel Messenger's latest book, The Rivers of Eden, is about five people, bonded by war, who share stories of bravery, shame and horror and is available through Amazon More information on Nigel's website
TwoCan Connect, Gloucestershire’s Network for Disabled Artists, welcomes anyone who identifies as a disabled creative to join them. They are keen to reach as many DDN creatives across Gloucestershire as possible. The first event is Tuesday, 28th July 2026 12.30-1.30pm at Patch in Gloucester. Full information and FREE tickets available now at twocanconnect.eventbrite.com Join them […]
Budding authors have until September 30 to enter The Paul Cave Prize for Literature 2026. There are already some excellent submissions from around the world. Established in 2023 The Paul Cave Prize for Literature celebrates the English language and is an excellent platform for writers and poets to get their work read by a professional […]
Joanna Campbell's novella-in-flash, The Hilltop Hour, a runner-up in the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award, was published in paperback in June by Ad Hoc Fiction and is available from Amazon
Play on Stroud Theatre Festival is happening on the weekend of 9-11 October 2026 We want to encourage local writers to be involved, so we have launched our 'Six of the Best,' event. Do you have a ten minute play that you would like to see performed at the festival? The six best plays we […]
"Death at the Village Garden Party" will be launched by Boldwood Books on 31st July. Death at the Village Garden Party, the fourth in Debbie Young’s popular Cotswold Curiosity Shop cosy mystery series, will be published by Boldwood Books on 31st July in ebook, paperback, hardback and audiobook. This timely summer read continues Alice Carroll’s adventures […]
Submissions for the U.K. wide Bill Cashmore playwriting award are OPEN. The Bill Cashmore Award offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays by writers aged 18-30, to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Bristol Old Vic. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the […]
SSS opens for submissions from all Gloucs and S.Gloucs writers on the theme of HEAT/HOT on Sunday 16 August and closes on Sunday 27 September. It's FREE to submit. 8 to 10 stories will be selected to be read at the next great SSS event on Sunday 8 November at Lansdown Hall in Stroud. This event is part of the […]
Slight presents a night of poetic performance, spoken word & sounds from Kate Dent & Soren Bryce July 18th, Rough Hands Coffee Stroud Free Entry Doors 7pm
Frank McMahon will be launching his new book of poems, Not Born to Rule, The Queen Anne Poems, in a dramatised reading, on July 11th at 2pm at Cirencester Rugby Club, The Whiteway, GL7 2ER. Free parking, complimentary drinks, books for sale.
