Surrey Writers' Soc

07AC03 - 6:00pm

Join us next Tuesday for a poetry workshop with our own lovely VP Tabby McLachlan!!

We'll also be holding our AGM to elect new members for next year's committee so come along if you're interested

Missed seeing everyone at the quiz yesterday :( assuming everyone's gone home for the holidays/is busy...

On that note, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

First semester has been a pleasure, can't wait to catch you all in 2020!

A very VERY big thank you to our wonderful guest speaker Joshua Levine on Tuesday.

It was amazing hearing about the history and the process behind the scenes that went into the film/script, and the book. What was most evident throughout the talk, was the amount of dedication and research that was put into

Also, shout out to for collabing with us on this one. It was a pleasure! @ University of Surrey

6pm! ☺️🤗

Make sure to come along to tomorrow's session (26/11/19) in 07AC03 this time where one of our members is leading a workshop of script writing! Should be lots of fun so hope to see you there at the usual time of 6pm!

Hi Everyone!
As people who were at the last meeting will know, I'm conducting a survey about gender neutral bathrooms for an article for the Stag magazine. If you could please take 3 minutes of your time to answer it, that would be really helpful! Also, to those who answered it already, I changed some of the questions so if you could please complete it again, that would be really helpful. Thank you!
Sophie - President
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We had fun yesterday creating stories by mixing up paragraphs ! Hope you all enjoyed it as much as us 🤗 (Our members have such lovely hand—writing, no?)

Join us tomorrow in 19AC03 at 6pm for help in getting those creative writing skills flowing!

A calm evening freewrite session to help ease some stress before those pesky exams come up 😬 Join us next week for something a little different! 😉

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting tonight!! Prizes to be won and fun times to be had. Bring a laptop or a device that can connect to the internet if possible!!

6pm in 19AC03 for anyone who doesn't know

What a great first session! We hope everyone had a blast and will come to our next session :) . Did you all enjoy writing in someone else's writing genre? I know I struggled with poetry but definitely enjoyed it! If you want to, please tell us about your experiences below and any suggestions you might have. Also feel free to share anything you've worked on. Until next time!

Was great seeing everyone at the EGM last Tuesday. I am pleased to say that the new VP is Tabby Mclachlan, Treasurer is Grace Lin and I remain president. Regular meetings are starting next week (22nd) at 6pm in room 19AC03. Pass the message on to any friends who aren't yet on the Facebook and if anything changes, it'll be on the Microsoft Teams channel. See you all then!

Hello to all our members, new and old! We've had a lot of questions about our first meeting. Unfortunately there's a student union event on the 8th so we will not be able to have a meeting then; however we have our EGM on the 15th and regular meetings will start after that!
To become an official member, make sure to sign up on the student union website: ussu.co.uk/getinvolved/clubs/join by logging in with your uni email and searching for Surrey Writers. Really important that you do this as otherwise you will not be an official member and might miss out on important information.
Looking forward to meeting everyone soon!
~Sophie

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Thanks for an amazing day! It was great to meet you all, and we hope you had as fun of a time at fresher's fair as we did! Don't forgot to sign up on the ussu website!!!

Come visit us at stall 207!!

CALLING ALL WRITERS!
The national Poetry Competition is now open for submissions. The judges this year are Mona Arshi, Maurice Riordan and Helen Mort. Please go to https://npc.poetrysociety.org.uk/ for more information and to enter if you wish. The prizes are £5000 for first, £2000 for second, £1000 for third and seven commedation prizes of £200. The deadline is 31st October 2019. Best of luck to all entrants 😄

National Poetry Competition – The Poetry Society

Hey guys. The new year hasn't even started yet - but we've already got something amazing to show you! A stunning piece of work by Inaayat Islam depicting his experiences during his first year at Surrey University!

Please check it out at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-year-university-what-independence-inaayat-ul-ismail-islam?fbclid=IwAR1aplJWd1VYUieCPH1ri0c0rVEfK6tw_yO3_ifbR-iMYt9sjW0JmNvXnic

First Year of University: What is Independence? First Things First… After publishing my first article, I felt the need to “outdo” myself. I forgot that not everything in life needed to be a competition – and of all people, I was competing with myself.

Hey guys!!! we've been working hard behind the scenes and are proud to present to you:

A new Website: https://activity.ussu.co.uk/surrey_writers/home
A new Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrey_writers/

These resources have just been created, henceforth, we will constantly be improving and updating these resources, and hope that this marks the start of a great new year!!!

NEW COMMITTEE POSITIONS!

Surrey Writers are looking for two signatories to join our committee from the start of October. Anyone interested in the position of VP or the treasurer position please contact us at [email protected]

The date of the EGM will be announced soon and it is important that we have as many people as possible attend.

Thanks everyone and look forward to seeing you all at the start of the year!

New Committee Position!!

For anyone interested in being a part of the Surrey Writers committee, a new position has just been introduced! This is the Wellbeing and Inclusion Champion. This person will work with the Student Union and us as a committee to ensure that we remain inclusive and provide support for all members of the society.

For more information, please email us at [email protected]

Thanks everyone!

Hello Everyone!
My name is Blake and I'm the newly elected Treasurer of Surrey Writers. We held an AGM on Monday (20th May) and revived the group from Dormancy. The committee for this year are:
Sophie Pike - President
Teodor Carețu - Vice President
Blake Fowler - Treasurer
Yangjian Zhou - Social media Coordinator

We will be making a drive to attract new members in September and have a number of fun events planned for next year, so check back on this page for more details in the future :)

Please accept my apologises for the silence and for not hosting a meeting last month. (Illness, assessments, and my avoidance of social media all played their part.) Beside the apologises, I am making this post for two reason. First, I want to make people aware that, since we did not host an AGM, the society will be falling back into dormancy at the end of the year. I will make some effort to promote the running of the society to first and second years in October, but, unfortunately, I think it is unlikely the society will be resumed. If anyone knows of someone who might like to run the society, or who would like to run it themselves, they should message me, and I will inform them of the process of restarting the society. (They will also need to find a vice president and an accountant – although these post need only be honorary.)
Secondly, I wanted to ask if anyone would be interested in attending a final workshop on the 11th June – or in the week beginning the 11th if another day would work better? If people want to attend and are not hindered by assessments, I will happily host a workshop. And there'll be free bookmarks – and, of course, biscuits – if anybody wants them.

Unfortunately, we will not be hosting a workshop tomorrow (19th). There will, however, be another workshop after the Easter break and a regular workshop schedule will resume (albeit with less frequency). I apologise for any disappoint caused. And I hope you all that a lovely Easter break!

I will be there, but I may be ten minutes late. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

This week we will be looking at ways of narrating a story, with a particular emphasis on unreliable narration, so-called free indirect discourse, and detached/objective narration. If you like 'The Great Gatsby' or 'The Driver's Seat' you should enjoy this week. As always, no prior knowledge is assumed. They will also be cake and biscuits.
By the way, this will be the only creative writing workshop this month, so I'll try to make it a good one.
For all those intrigued, the workshop will be 6p.m. tomorrow (Monday 12th) in 07AC03.