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Our 2025 Graduations are just around the corner, where our wonderful students get to celebrate all their hard work - and reflect on the years of fiction writing, scriptwriting, copywriting, game writing, and so much more!

Graduations take place at the beautiful Bristol Beacon at the heart of the city, and allow family and loved ones to commemorate a truly great achievement.

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A highlight in the UWE (and Bristol) calendar is the degree show/showcase.

We held our 2025 UWE Bristol degree show across exhibitions at Bower Ashton, Arnolfini, Spike Island and Frenchay Campus, accompanied by an extensive digital Showcase. We celebrated the exceptional work of more than 1,200 graduates from more than 40 courses - including Creative and Professional Writing.

The 2025 Degree Show allowed our Creative and Professional Writing students to publicise their writing to various creative and professional audiences, leading to networking and publishing opportunities.

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The UWE Creative and Professional Writing students published the second issue of Nova in June a new literary magazine of short stories, poetry, non-fiction and flash fiction by students, staff and alumni from the degree, as well as work by other writers too!

Issue Two of Nova is a beautiful print version, edited, designed, produced and publicised by our students. The issue was showcased as part of our annual Degree Show, and we will be hosting an official launch for the magazine later this summer.

All students on the Creative and Professional Writing degree have the opportunity to work on Nova and submit their writing to it. Submissions will be open again later this year... Keep an eye out!

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UWE Creative and Professional Writing lecturer Sharon Clark has received Immersive Arts funding to produce a new technologically innovative take on Moby Dick. A reimagining of Moby Dick, blending digital and physical worlds in large-scale projection environments, offering new ways for audiences to engage with immersive narratives.

The Whale is an immersive reimagining of Moby Dick designed for live audiences, brought to life by Jack Hardiker-Bresson (Office of Everyone) and Sharon Clark (Raucous).

This innovative project cultivates dynamic relationships between digital projection, physical environments, and spatial creative captioning, offering new ways for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences to engage with immersive narratives.

More details here: https://immersivearts.uk/projects/the-whale/

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The UWE Creative and Professional Writing students launched the first issue of a new literary magazine in April - publishing short stories, poetry, non-fiction and flash fiction by students, staff and alumni from the degree, as well as work by other writers too!

You can read the first issue here: https://publishingnova.wixsite.com/nova-journal/issue-one

All students on the CPW degree have the opportunity to work on Nova and submit their writing to it. Submissions will be open again later this year... Keep an eye out!

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Next Offer-Holder event: 22 March - check your UWE Welcome portal for details and to sign up

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We had a great Offer Holder Day last weekend, exploring writing intentions, Bristol landscapes and the possibilities of literature with our wonderful, talented and enthusiastic offer holders!

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A highlight in the UWE (and Bristol) calendar is the degree show/showcase.

Our 2024 UWE Bristol degree show combined exhibitions at Bower Ashton, Arnolfini, Spike Island and Frenchay Campus, accompanied by an extensive digital Showcase. We celebrated the exceptional work of more than 1,200 graduates from more than 40 courses - including Creative and Professional Writing.

This image, 'Fine Dining Dog', shows the fantastic work of UWE graduates, Katie Mockridge, BA (Hons) Illustration.

The 2025 Degree Show will be held in June, with the exact dates TBC. It allows our Creative and Professional Writing students to publicise their writing to various creative and professional audiences, leading to networking and publishing opportunities.

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UWE Creative & Professional Writing Students Create Literary Magazine: Nova

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UWE Creative & Professional Writing Students Create Literary Magazine: Nova

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Nova is a literary journal created by UWE Creative and Professional Writing students, as part of the third-year Publishing Module. Their mission is to 'illuminate the stories and poetry of new and emerging writers'. The first issue launches in April 2025.

Nova publishes short stories, non-fiction, flash fiction and poetry from students and staff across UWE. Keep an eye out for their next submission window!

You can check out the website here: https://publishingnova.wixsite.com/nova-journal

And you can follow Nova on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/the.nova.journal/?hl=en

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Book Deal for Senior Lecturer Chelsey Flood on Neurodiversity and Addiction

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Book Deal for Senior Lecturer Chelsey Flood on Neurodiversity and Addiction

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Chelsey Flood from the Creative and Professional Writing team has signed a book contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers for an upcoming nonfiction work exploring the intersection of undiagnosed neurodiversity and addiction.

A compelling blend of memoir, research and storytelling, Drinking to Mask and Unmask aims to be an invaluable resource for those navigating similar challenges, their family members and friends, as well as professionals working in neurodiverse, mental health and addiction support.

Forthcoming in 2026, this book promises to spark vital conversations about how society understands and supports neurodivergent individuals in relation to addiction and recovery, as well as how the need for dependence on substances might be mitigated.

Subscribe to Chelsey's newsletter for more information, excerpts and to follow along with her learning as she interviews experts, academics and advocates in the process of creating the book.

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Next Offer-Holder event: 22 March - check your UWE Welcome portal for details and to sign up

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AI & Connection: lecturer Sharon Clark awarded funding to work on project "Kinship Wayfinder"

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AI & Connection: lecturer Sharon Clark awarded funding to work on project "Kinship Wayfinder"

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Scriptwriting lecturer Sharon Clark is part of one of six successful teams awarded funding to explore the future of AI as part of a My World-funded initiative at Watershed: More Than AI Sandbox. Her team's project is Kinship Wayfinder: an AI-generated game that helps isolated people form friendships. More Than AI Sandbox will conclude with a public showcase in Bristol in September. Keep an eye on the Pervasive Media Studio news page for further updates!

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Accommodation is guaranteed for all new students who put UWE Bristol as their first choice.

Applications will open on Thursday 13 June at 13:00 with a deadline of 30 June.

More information is available on the UWE website: How to apply for accommodation - Accommodation | UWE Bristol

Check out the different accommodation options here (scroll all the way down to view the different halls)

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Here in Creative and Professional Writing at UWE, we're lucky to partner with a fantastic copywriting agency called The Writing Club. Their New Writers Programme helps our students gain real-world industry experience while still studying.

In the spring term, the Writing Club sets real writing tasks for second-year students, giving them the chance to present their work and get feedback, just as in a real agency. In the summer, they offer a paid summer internship for a UWE student to gain valuable agency experience and contribute to high profile projects. Read more about the New Writers programme.

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Our third-year module "Creative Writing and the Self" is an unusual module that combines writing with other ways of making art. In class, students explore how a writing practice can be inspired by visual arts, and how it can take many forms, including handmade publications called zines.

A zine is a self-published booklet, made using text, images, or a combination. Historically, they've been made to be reproduced quickly and at low cost, making them a good way for people to circulate ideas and stories outside traditional publishing routes.

In the module, students learn how to explore their writing ideas through collage, drawing and bookbinding, and slowly build up a creative practice that encompasses art-making. They also learn about zine culture, and the theory of creative practice.

This term, they're making zines in response to an interview with another person.

To see the students' finished zines, come along to our show at the School of Arts Degree Show, in the Publishing Lab at Bower Ashton campus (8th - 12th June 2024).

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Anthology: Creative and Professional Writing 2023

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Last year's graduating students published their work in our 2023 Anthology: a collection of fiction, poetry, editorial and visual artwork that showcases the wide range of student interests at UWE. Click through to read the publication online here.

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Welcome to our newsletter! Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the page to scroll across and read all the stories. Check back soon for more stories as we add them over the coming weeks...

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Next Offer-Holder event: 22 March - check your UWE Welcome portal for details and to sign up

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When I came to UWE Bristol in the middle of lockdown, I remember having loads of anxiety over connecting with people. I never really considered myself popular or all that talkative, and all the rules around social distancing didn’t help much either. Now, I’m in my final year. I’m the president of one of the biggest societies on campus, and I feel more confident and self-assured than ever. How did this happen?

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Finding My People - UWE student story - Sadie

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Thank you to everyone who came along to our Offer-holder day on Saturday 23 March! It was fantastic to meet you all and to do some writing together.

For one of the writing tasks we wrote postcards to our future selves, to be hidden in a book and discovered again one day by chance. Katy Mahood, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, said, "It was a great pleasure to meet everyone. I hope everyone remembered to put their postcards in a book!"

Sharon Clark, Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting, said, "It was wonderful to meet our new students. Drama empowers new voices; it's inspirational work."

"It's so exciting to meet such an enthusiastic group of writers," said Dan Anthony, Programme Leader for Creative and Professional Writing. "We're about to go on a creative journey together - what happens next is going to be unexpected, productive and joyous."

If you missed this one, join us for our Virtual Offer Holder event on 15 May - keep an eye on your UWE Welcome portal for the details!

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This month, first years studying non-fiction and copywriting wrote cut-up poems by reassembling fragments of poetry. The exercise was inspired by T.S Eliot's idea that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood"; it encouraged students to discover and trust their deepest instincts when writing.

The three poems that were 'reassembled' were Bernadette Mayer's "Fish & Chips", a section from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Dog", and Ted Hughes' "Era of Giant Lizards".

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Welcome to our newsletter! Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the page to scroll across and read all the stories. Check back soon for more stories as we add them over the coming weeks...

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Next Offer-Holder event: 15 May (Online) - check your UWE Welcome portal for details and to sign up

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NOVA is a literary magazine created by Creative and Professional Writing students on the third-year module Publishing: From Commission to Print.

Over the last few weeks, some of the students have been working as editors, choosing and editing pieces for submission. Others have been working on promotion and marketing, while the Design and Production team are making final decisions on the way the magazine will look and feel to read.

Follow NOVA on Instagram to find out more!

We'll be displaying NOVA at our end-of-year Degree Show at Bower Ashton campus (8th - 12th June 2024) - come along to read a copy!

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Accommodation is guaranteed for all new students who put UWE Bristol as their first choice.

Applications will open on Thursday 13 June at 13:00 with a deadline of 30 June.

More information is available on the UWE website: How to apply for accommodation - Accommodation | UWE Bristol

Check out the different accommodation options here (scroll all the way down to view the different halls)

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Creative and Professional Writing student Rebecca went from being nervous about sharing her work to earning money from her writing while still studying. Now in her final year, she reflects on her time at UWE.

I found myself inspired by the variety of modules on my course [...] I realised how many routes I could go down with my writing, each seemingly more exciting than the last.

Click on the image to read Rebecca's story.

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Becoming A Writer - UWE Student story -Rebecca