Maybe you’re a novelist.
You sit, for hours every day, pouring over your laptop screen, your keyboard struggling to keep up with the velocity of your fingers. It’s your second instalment of a seven-book series, and your fans are waiting eagerly. It’s three am. You’ve been writing for weeks.
Or perhaps you’re a poet.
After your lectures, you sit leisurely in a café, tea at the ready, articulating your weekly musings. The spine of the notebook groans, you’ve written so much, it can hold no more. The paper awaits your contemplations, your handwriting speeds up.
You could be a scriptwriter. A short-story enthusiast. You might be a writer of haikus, on bits of napkin, or letters to your granny in the highlands – or perhaps you’ve only ever written inside birthday cards. Even if you’ve only ever considered putting pen to paper, we’re asking you: do you want to write?
UEA’s Creative Writing Society is proud to exist in one of the UK’s most vibrant scenes for writing and literature. The city of Norwich is brimming with writers’ events: poetry open mics, famous authors, independent publishing houses, and we’re right in the heart of it!
Our weekly writing workshops make us one of the university’s most active societies – come along, bring some pens and paper and meet like-minded people as we try out new prompts, styles, share our interests. We are, most importantly, a community of writers, and we’re all about pushing you to try new things, inspire one-another and write more and more!
Of course, we don’t just sit silently and scribble. Most of our workshops round off with a drink in the union bar or café, and we also collaborate with other societies, like Litsoc, Eggbox Publishing and Headucate.
But most we’re famous at UEA for our open mics, when three or four times a semester, we head out to a venue in town. Members bring friends and flatmates, grab a drink, and then get behind a mic to read, shout, sing, whisper, perform, pour water over their heads (yes, we had that once) by way of sharing their work! It’s always an amazing variation of talent, and an inspiration to see what you come up with.
If any of this has roused your interest, please get in touch with us! We're always more than happy to meet new memebers...
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CWS Committee 2021/2022
President: Clara Ehlers
Social Secretary: Mackenzie Malcolm
Treasurer: Samuel Glyn
Secretary: Barney Hill
Equality and Diversity Officer: Biff Pearson
Health & Safety Officer: Silas Hand