![]() ![]() So as you read the stories and poems ahead, ask yourself: what are you building up? The Rook: What We Build Up – Coming Soon! The Rook is the stockpiled results of Creative Writing and Publishing students’ creativity and personal industry. Personality traits are gradually stockpiled atop one another to create something meaningful and special. Relationships are built up from character and choice. Laughing at the coked-out man with soft hands, feeling the wind on your face at Crescent Lake, and smiling at a constellation of freckles, these are the results of build-ups too. ![]() Pick up your copy today, via the university e-store.Ĭultural miscommunications, breakdowns between friends and lovers, the chemical crush of a date rape drug, these are results of build-ups.īut the same is true in reverse. In October 2012, with the arrival of our eighth issue, Popshot relaunched as ‘The Illustrated Magazine of New Writing’ firmly positioning itself as a literary magazine that champions new writing across the globe."What We Build Up is out now! Featuring work by University of Roehampton students and alumni and put together by current students on the MA Publishing course, What We Build Up is the next instalment in The Rook creative writing anthology series. With the launch of Issue 7, we started talking about the introduction of short stories and flash fiction into the magazine, as well as poetry. Shortly afterwards, Prospect named Popshot as ‘the new face of British poetry’ after it became the first British poetry magazine to achieve major international distribution into 18 countries. Some favourable press swiftly followed with the magazine being picked up by Dazed & Confused, placed on The Observer’s Cool List and named as one of ‘the fresh breed of literary magazines’ by The Independent. ![]() With black pages, a sans serif typeface, and filled with vibrant illustration work, the magazine didn’t look like a poetry magazine and we were thrilled with it. Combining illustration with poetry in a neat and beautifully designed format, in April 2009 the first issue of Popshot launched, thumping its chest and quoting Adrian Mitchell’s ‘Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people’. There was a feeling that the world of poetry was driving itself into an elitist and fusty no-through road, and we wanted to do something about it. "In June 2008, the idea for a poetry and illustration magazine materialised as a result of picking through the literary shelves of the now deceased Borders. ![]() Please click here to view their open calls and submission guidelines. Academic submissions are not encouraged.” We are an arts and literature magazine but are interested in all the various fields of human endeavour: law, finance, architecture, music, science, sociology etc. “We are open to publishing work unconstrained by form, subject or genre with the proviso that it be seriously minded and accessible to a non-specialised readership, with an emphasis on contemporary arts and literature. Its aim is the promotion of the arts and literature and of advancing education in arts and literature.” The journal was conceived as an arts and literary journal specialising in artistically or educationally meritorious works of new or emerging artists and writers. The magazine launched in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, interviews with writers and artists, poetry, and series of artworks. “THE WHITE REVIEW is an arts and literature magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. ![]()
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