Turning Pages 6/2024

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Mandy Beck, Cecile Sandten (Eds.)

Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology. Issue 6, 2024

ISSN 2629-8384, 56 S., 16 Abb., kt., € 5,00 (2024)


Turning Pages is an annual journal of bright voices from all over the world that features creative and original writing in English in short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, as well as drawings, art projects, and many other related genres by students, academics, and writers. It is a production of the Chair of English Literatures at the English Department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and the first journal of its kind at the university.

Turning Pages can be read in both ways, literally and metaphorically, implying that we need to turn the page, that we need to demonstrate that literature and art have something to say and that they can also be interventionist as they show how we can use our own imagination for the better. Therefore, Turning Pages will make readers not only literally browse through a variety of texts and turn pages, but it also seeks to reflect situations, events, experiences, or emotions that turn the page for individuals or groups of people.

The sixth issue of Turning Pages presents a potpourri of contributions, which range from reflective and thought-provoking to full of wit and black humour, written in form of poems, short crime fiction or retellings of classic stories. Some texts were part of a writing competition, others were inspired by a creative writing workshop. The range of topics included is equally diverse – family and origins, identity and memory, loss and goodbyes, or the act of writing itself. Some authors have complemented their poems with photographs to add another level of expression. But the featured photographs and art works are generally close to the texts, as they picture something concrete via a more abstract, sometimes even palimpsestic, perspective. Apart from new voices and firsttime writers, this issue is characterised by international and national writers, such as Jane Boulden, Julia Davis-Nosko, Andreas Gloge or Kathryn Hummel. As always, there is the connection to Chemnitz as the birthplace of Turning Pages.


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