AberECWS

Aberystwyth University English & Creative Writing Society
🎉Best Academic Society 2021🎉
'To explain and entertain, to plan and expand, to think and drink!'

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We’ve extended the deadline for AberInk submissions!

If you haven’t submitted something yet, you’ve got an extra week to send it in!

(see full details in the replies)

[The Bookshop by the Sea - Aberystwyth @Bookshopsea]

🦋BIG NEWS!

✨WE ARE LAUNCHING Aberystwyth Poetry Festival 2023!!✨Booking Now Open!✨29th April -1st May!✨Launch Price of £62 adult £31 student - head to our website to book now!

🦋celebrating poetry, sustainability and showcasing women poets!

https://t.co/FJoTB4CI9a

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AberInk: Long Road Home

We’re still accepting submissions for our Semester 2 Aberink: Long Road Home! Please email your submissions to [email protected].

We are also requesting portfolio’s for the AberInk (paid) cover commission!
(2-4 pieces of your pre-existing artwork)

[AberECWS @AberECWS]

We’ve extended the deadline for AberInk submissions!

If you haven’t submitted something yet, you’ve got an extra week to send it in!

(see full details in the replies)

[Aberystwyth University @AberUni]

On #InternationalWomensDay, we are delighted to announce the renaming of one of our flagship academic buildings in honour of *Professor Gwendolen Rees* (1906–1994).
•Leading zoologist and parasitologist
•1st Welsh woman elected Fellow @royalsociety

🖱️https://t.co/NMWjtwXi89

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AberInk: Long Road Home

We’re still accepting submissions for our Semester 2 Aberink: Long Road Home! Please email your submissions to [email protected].

We are also requesting portfolio’s for the AberInk (paid) cover commission!
(2-4 pieces of your pre-existing artwork)

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This Week’s Events:

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Exquisite Corpse Stories

Following some prompts from our Social Secs, we'll be writing short stories with the support of everyone else in the room. But beware: once you've passed the story off to somebody else, who knows where it'll end up?!

[The Bookshop by the Sea - Aberystwyth @Bookshopsea]

It's nearly here! 📚❤️📚

We are so excited for @SStokesChapman this Friday 24th!!

Discussing her amazing novel #PANDORA and insider knowledge about her #publishing journey from @AberUni to #author
@AberEnglishDept @AberECWS
Tickets here: https://t.co/1JNwNNcQbl

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AberInk: Long Road Home

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AberInk: Long Road Home

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This Week’s Events / News

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Writers' Workshop
Bring along any piece of writing (up to 1000 words) that you'd like to workshop with a group of fellow writers. We'll read it out loud, and give you group feedback. Please email your work to our Creative Writing Secretary before the session.

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Bookshop Crawl
Our social secs will take everyone on a sober 'crawl' around the best bookshops in town, ending with drinks at Coffee #1.
We’ll meet outside Caffè Nero (25 Great Darkgate St.) Location updates will be provided in the Facebook group chat and on our Instagram story.

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This Week's Events
(6th > 12th February)

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Writers' Workshop
Bring along any piece of writing (up to 1000 words) that you'd like to workshop with a group of fellow writers. We'll read it out loud, and give you group feedback. Please email your work to our Creative Writing Secretary before the session.

[Careers at Penguin Books UK @penguinukjobs]

Do you want a role in book creation, but unsure where your skills fit in? What’s the difference between a junior designer and designer, and what's a picture editor? 🧑‍🎨

Our design and production teams have answered all your questions! > https://t.co/US1PAUhtLZ

#WorkInPublishing

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We're now open to submissions for our Semester 1 AberInk issue! Theme: Into Misty Woods.

Prose limit: 1500 words.
Poetry limit: 60 lines.
- Must be a paid ECWS member.
- Must be your own original work.

Please email all submissions to [email protected].