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