The  Post Graduate Open Day on 2^nd September at the University of Gloucestershire is an opportunity to find out about the Post Graduate Creative Writing opportunities and to meet some of the teaching team. Iota Editor and Course Leader, Nigel McLoughlin, along with other teaching staff will be on hand throughout the event.

The range of Creative and Critical Writing courses offer the opportunity to develop writing and critical skills and to read widely. Further details about the Open Day, Creative and Critical Writing courses and the wider range of Postgraduate taught courses are available from the University of Gloucestershire website.

Templar Poetry is delighted to launch a new publishing award, the Straid Poetry Collection Awards,  for full poetry collections to be published in 2011.

In the five years since Templar Poetry was founded it has established a reputation for publishing excellent poetry from across the UK and Ireland and the annual Straid Collection Awards will enable us to broaden our list and work with an increasing number of poets in developing wider audiences and readers for the poetry we publish.

Further Details:

http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/about.html

http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/awards.html

Congratulations to Iota contributor Abegail Morley from Kent, whose first collection from Cinnamon Press, How to Pour Madness Into a Teacup, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2010.

Poems in the collection first appeared in Iota 85 – single copies available direct from the Iota website:

http://www.iotamagazine.co.uk

Further information and copies of the collection:

http://www.abegailmorley.co.uk

http://cinnamonpress.com