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Creative Writing: Books

Resources for students on Creative Writing and Creative and Critical Writing courses

Finding books in the library

UoG Library book collections

Search Library Discovery for our print and eBooks. Results show the book location, organised on shelves by topic.

Remember to limit your search results to University of Gloucestershire to just display our own holdings.

Finding books with Library Discovery

Using our eBooks

eBook collections at UoG

UoG eBooks are available through Library Discovery.  They can also be accessed directly via our eBook provider platforms.

The main eBook providers for Creative Arts courses are:

Use eBooks for:

  • immediate access wherever you are
  • accessibility - you can alter the text size and background, or use a screen reader
  • search functionality

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Library Discovery

New Books

Monsters : what do we do with great art by bad people?
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: from Blair to Brexit
Decolonizing the Undead: rethinking zombies in world-literature, film, and media
Blossomise
The craft: a guide to making poetry happen in the 21st century
New Caribbean Poetry: an anthology
Experimental Writing: a writer's guide and anthology
Landmarks
Vesper flights: new and collected essays
A swim in a pond in the rain: in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life
Sometimes I never suffered
The Girl in 6E
The Wild Places
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
Strong female character
I, Shakespeare
Cover image: Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: an Anthology of Afriquia Theatre

Have a look at the full list of new resources for Creative Writing courses.

Inter-Library Loan service

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic Shelf number
Graphic novels 741.5092
Creative writing 808.02
Writing poetry 808.1
Writing drama 808.2
Writing fiction 808.3
Literature and the environment 809.9336
American poetry 811
American poetry since 2000 811.6
American drama 812
American drama since 2000 812.6
American fiction 813
American fiction since 2000 813.6
English poetry 821
English poetry since 2000 812.92
English drama 822
English drama since 2000 822.92
English fiction 823
English fiction since 2000 823.92

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