Writing is important for communication. It needs creativity and resilience. Writers craft engaging stories, inviting readers into new worlds and nurturing a love for reading. The Creative Writing Society at Staffs is a recently revived club revolving around everything to do with writing. Having held the first taster session in February, the society is dedicated to exploring creativity and self-expression through writing in a fun and welcoming environment.
Writing is important for communication. It needs creativity and resilience. Writers craft engaging stories, inviting readers into new worlds and nurturing a love for reading. The Creative Writing Society at Staffs is a recently revived club revolving around everything to do with writing. Having held the first taster session in February, the society is dedicated to exploring creativity and self-expression through writing in a fun and welcoming environment.
The society is headed by Ben Targett, with Sophie Phillips as Communications Officer and Aaliyah Begum-Ali as Finance Officer.
Though still in its early stages of development, the society has a member led approach aiming to encourage shaping the society. Whether you show up to write independently or get involved with the session, the society is here to support and encourage you in it.
The Creative Writing Society Events and Activities
Most of the society’s sessions will revolve around writing workshops. These include themed writing activities, scriptwriting, reviews, reflections, editorial practice, constructive feedback on personal projects and casual tutorials regarding authors, genres, and themes.
Additional events and activities include, but are not limited to, book discussions, private publishing of our best work, competitions within the society and the chance to enter competitions like ‘NaNoWriMo’! Since the society is member-led, more projects will be announced as we progress through the year.
Benefits of joining the Creative Writing Society:
There’s plenty of reasons you should join the Creative Writing Society! The process of writing has multiple benefits – it provides an outlet to help express inner thoughts and articulate ideas, it has been proven to help with mental health and wellbeing and, (most obviously) improves your writing skills which can positively influence academic and professional development!
Furthermore, joining a society means you can gain useful feedback and critiques of your work through trusted members within a welcoming environment. Most importantly, we don’t gatekeep! No matter what or how you write, we’ll welcome you into our society. Finally, did we mention it’s free to join?
How to join
Joining the society is free and anyone who has interest in writing can join. You can also become a member of the society for free if you are graduated and have no affiliation with the university by taking the associate membership.
- Click here to the Creative Writing Society
- Log in with your student details.?
- Click join and checkout in the basket.
If you’re interested and want to know more about the society, we have an active discord server you can join to ask questions, communicate with existing members, and contact the committee members. Join here: https://discord.com/invite/axV2azAK6P You can additionally email CreativeWritingSoc@groups.staffs.ac.uk for further information.
We hope to hear from you soon!