Hello
everyone!
Do
you know Simile? No? Well, Simile is a literary magazine made
entirely by students at the university. It consists of everything you
can possibly think of: prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and even
drawings. Every year, the magazine revolves around a theme, and this year
it will be “the unknown”. Simile is now looking for submissions
for this year's issue so Creative Writing Group decided to help
students get started at a special edition meeting.
We
started the meeting with the story cubes. Aline divided the whole
group in pairs and gave each one three cubes. The exercise was to write
a little story using the following prompt, and the cubes of course:
You
are at home when you suddenly hear a strange noise coming from
outside. You look out the window, what do you see?
As
usual, some of the results were so weird, we could only laugh. The
second activity involved a little name bag, which includes the names
of fictional characters, but also real names, such as “Aline in a
bad mood” and “Cara from Simile” - because why not. Each writer
received two names, for example I had Barack Obama and Dr Frankenstein.
Our task was to write a story combining the two names. Afterwards, the
other people had to guess who we had drawn. Let's just say some stories
were ... memorable.
The
meeting ended as usual with a bit of poetry. Laurence had chosen a
few poems, which all talked about death from a different perspective:
death as a mystery, death as an escape, etc. After a brief
discussion, Laurence invited us to write (or draw) something about
one of those perspectives, even though we had already used all our
inspiration for that evening.
If
you would like to submit a piece for Simile or have any questions, do
not hesitate to have a look at the Facebook page or send an email to
similemagazine@gmail.com.
The next Creative Writing meeting will be a Christmas edition by the
way!
Until
then,
Cara
