Experience English
Annual Writing Competition
The University of Wales, Newport has been running an annual writing competition for both Schools and Colleges and current Newport students for over 10 years and the 2013 competition will be starting in the Autumn.
Find out more – Annual Writing Competition.
PAN - This is the sparky magazine of creative writing and art produced by Creative Writing and English students at the University of Wales, Newport.
The English and Creative Writing team the University would like to invite young writers in Years 12 and 13 to enter our 13th . To find out more information about the competition as well as last years results, please visit . - This is the sparky magazine of creative writing and art produced by Creative Writing and English students at the University of Wales, Newport.
Launched in 2007 PAN is now on its fourth edition and continues to fizz with snappy, touching and haunting pieces, both written and visual. Pan features work from students at the University, along with selections from young writers who entered our University Annual Writing competition. This years edition features a contribution from broadcaster and poet and 'Barnsley Bard', Ian McMillan. Previous contributors include those from Australia's leading poet Les Murray, artist Jon Langford, poet Rachel Tresize and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales. All creative writing students are encouraged to join the editorial team in year 2.
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Student Successes
Laurie Canciani
Creative Writing undergraduate Laurie Canciani was invited onto the BBC Radio Wales ‘Phil the Shelf’ book programme to review her manuscript with a publisher. Laurie says, “It was over in a day – the gigantic headphones, talking to a microphone with polite nods from behind a sheet of glass, the amazing feedback from Phil Rickman and Hazel Cushion and the recommendation of my manuscript to a literary agent.”
Julie Bainbridge
A short script submitted into a National Theatre competition to find new playwrights gained second year student Julie Bainbridge two months’ mentoring and intensive workshops at Ty Newydd, the National Writers Centre for Wales. As a result of her experience with the NT, Julie has been commissioned to write a play on the Welsh industrial revolution for schools and colleges for the Welsh Baccalaureate. Blackboots and Petticoats has been directed and produced by Cilgwyn Theatre Company. She has also received a bursary to be mentored for another six moths by leading playwright Kaite O’Reilly.
Stephen Nicholas
One of our graduates, Stephen Nicholas, has published a book for children/young teens called The Ghost Office, which is largely set in Caerleon. Stephen graduated in BA Hons English in 2005 before the BA Hons Creative Writing started, but he did modules in creative writing as part of the degree and completed a section of The Ghost Office for his final year dissertation under the supervision of tutor Linda Ruhemann.