Take
a break from the midterm madness and join us for an evening of good
company, creative writing and a drink or two if you fancy it. It’ll be free for members (wahoo!) and £2 for non-members.
Check out the event on Facebook for more info and see you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/801966486536803/
By Chiara Hampton Walking into the world of a novel blind has a quality of excitement. You’ve not yet been influenced by reviews, academic contexts, the particularities of the author’s biography. Perhaps it was the cover that drew you in or the recommendation of a friend. In any case, nothing exists in your mind but the text itself. You note the writing style before beginning to untangle the first threads of an unfamiliar story. By the time that story concludes, you’ve created an impression both personal and isolated.
By Chiara Hampton The new semester is upon us, bringing with it fresh aspirations and anxieties. Uni calendar dates may be arbitrary divisions of time, but these artificial beginnings provide excellent opportunities to seek out new experiences. Last September marked the start of my first year of university: an ideal moment to put down roots. As an English student, I was naturally drawn to literary organizations, among them PublishED. After their annual bookshop crawl, I joined the society and have attended every event since. You’ll have likely ascertained that my goal here is to encourage you to capitalize on this period of uni recalibration and give the society a try. Information about our events and the literary magazine we produce are readily available on this very site, yet they do not fully encapsulate the personal and atmospheric aspects of the society. Instead, this post is dedicated to (and here I accept the risk of drawing on the vacuous vocabulary of school boards and ur...
By Chiara Hampton Dear readers, the moment we have all been waiting for has arrived. December 2nd marked the launch of the winter edition of our literary publication The Inkwell . While fawning over lovely submissions from our student body at Sofi’s Southside last night, we took a moment to reflect on the work which went into this semester’s issue. If you’re curious about what happens behind the scenes of our micro-publishing operation (this is the publishing society, after all), here is a glimpse into the creation of Rot.
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