Gloucestershire Writers' Network (GWN)

Shop | Gloucestershire Writers' Network

Happy World Book Day! A day to celebrate.
We have an online shop for #Gloucs and #SouthGloucs writers on our website and welcome submissions of your publications
gloswriters.org.uk/shop/

Hope to see you TOMORROW.
Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 27th February 1.00pm.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Peter McDade as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

We're delighted with our article on pp 9 - 12 in Cheltenham Arts Council's magazine Perspectives about last year's competition and our event at Cheltenham Lit Fest which includes our winning writers' work. Click here to read
www.cheltenhamartscouncil.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 27th February at 1.00pm.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Peter McDade as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Don’t forget this event is on a week today.
Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 30th January at 1pm.
We are delighted to have Christine Whittemore and Ruth End as guests.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Submission Guidelines We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…

We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines...

Tennyson's early Lincolnshire wanderings,poems of wild grief for his lost friend,the shock of science upon world views! Highly recommended!.A query, please,for the one & only poetry workshop I mean to do (Buzzwords, Cheltenham, Feb). Have you read 'In Memoriam'? Do you think it works as a whole?

Our 2026 competition on the theme of Islands, judged by David Clarke (poetry) and Mandy Robotham (prose), is now open to writers of 16 and over who live, work or study in #Gloucs and #SouthGloucs. Prizes include £200 for each category winner & £100 second prizes. More info on gloswriters.org.uk

This event is on a week today.
Poetry Cafe Chelt. Library will be on Friday 28th November 1.00pm.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Chris Hemingway as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
No event in December.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 28th November at 1.00pm.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Chris Hemingway as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
No event in December.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Don’t forget this event is on a week today.
Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 31st October at 1pm.
We pm are delighted to have the lovely Sharon Larkin as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social

GWN Anthology 2025 By Gloucestershire Writers' Network | Gloucestershire Writers' Network Book Shop Explore GWN Anthology 2025 by Gloucestershire Writers' Network at the Gloucestershire Writers' Network Book Shop.

Our 2025 competition anthology on the theme of Edges is now for sale in our online shop. Read the work of our winners, Judith Green, Kate Levett and Laura Cassel, the runners up and highly commended as well as judges Kate Potts and Jamila Gavin
gloswriters.org.uk/shop/gwn-anthology-2025/

Conflict or Collaboration is a single poem contest with large cash prizes closing on 31 October.

Don't be conflicted -- collaborate your poet's voice with your creative instincts, and explore this theme of today. With a chance of a chunk of cash at the end of it. wildfire-words.com/c-or-c/

Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 31st October at 1pm.
We are delighted to have the lovely Sharon Larkin as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Homepage | Gloucestershire Writers' Network The go-to place for writers in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, hosting an annual poetry and prose writing competition

Thanks to all who made our event at //cheltlitfest on Saturday 18th such a success, to our prose and poetry winners and judges and to the Festival staff who enabled it to go so well. Our 2025 anthology will be available on our website to buy soon gloswriters.org.uk

Gloucestershire Writers' Network | Cheltenham Festivals Gloucestershire Writers’ Network competition winners present their work inspired by the theme of ‘Edges’. Competition judges poet Kate Potts, author of Pre

We're looking forward to the GWN event this Saturday, 18th and hearing the work of our prizewinners as well as of the 2 judges, Jamila Gavin and Kate Potts. If you haven't booked already all details are here
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/glouc...

The official graphic for National Poetry Day 2025 on the theme of 'Play'. It's an 8-bit, pastel background of a cherry blossom tree against a blue sky with books being thrown into the air. In large, alternating pink and blue text in the centre of the image, it reads: National Poetry Day / 02.10.2025 / PLAY

It's National Poetry Day! We'll be celebrating all day - stay tuned to our socials so you don't miss a thing 👀🎉

Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.

Hope to see you TOMORROW.
Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Dan Papworth as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is a week today.
Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis.
We are delighted to have Dan Papworth as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.

@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social

Gloucestershire poets! Here's the Buzzwords competition with a section just for you-deadline now 30 SEPTEMBER! All poets: 70 lines, excellent judge @rorywaterman.bsky.social, chance to read your poem, cash prize, support for Buzzwords,a most welcoming inclusive poetry event! LINK IN COMMENTS.

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September at 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis.
We are delighted to have the wonderful Dan Papworth as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen.
Free coffee.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social

Our village's last suspected 'witch'! From stories as late as the 1930s!There will be 3 more videos telling Mary Ann's story,with many twists. Do follow me to keep up (& you can read more in my prose book, 'Village'. Paperback £9.99 Kindle edition 99p!)
SEARCH FOR ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Our village's last suspected 'witch'! From Lincolnshire stories as late as the 1930s!There will be 4 more videos about Mary Ann, with many twists. Do follow me to keep up (& you can read more in my prose book', 'Village'. Paperback £9.99 Kindle edition 99p!) SEARCH ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Authors heading to Rossiter Books this autumn...

We think this is a pretty impressive line-up

Tickets on sale for all these events, early booking recommended

shorturl.fm/ocGLM

Thanks to early entrants to our popular Open Submissions for poems or flash fiction. Still lots more to review. Plus YOURS? Details: wildfire-words.com/os8/

Limericks are best spoken was agreed by all the poets selected to feature in wildfire words' 3rd Limerick Anthology. You can hear all their work at wildfire-words.com/kep-2025/

Hope to see you TOMORROW.
Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library is on Friday 25th July 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social
We are delighted to have the lovely Iris Anne Lewis as guest.
Join us & bring a poem to share.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is on a week today.
Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library is on Friday 25th July 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social
We are delighted to have the lovely Iris Anne Lewis as guest.
@wildfirewords.bsky.social
@josephinelay.bsky.social
@gloswriters.bsky.social

Ode to Joy Visit the post for more.

Poem of the Day: Ode to Joy by Gillian Clarke poemsontheunderground.org/ode-to-joy