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Dear friends & uni mates, Hello
We hope you're having a restful & productive summer so far 🌿
With many thanks to our dear friends Ms. Zeynab Alvandi & Ms. Saba Malek, who carried this responsibility with commitment & steadfast devotion. Whose presence will greatly be missed. Now, we take this torch forward with the hope of making the association stronger than before, so we, in turn, can pass it on to even stronger future members.
Here's the new team of our Scientific Association :
Mohammad Tavassoli Lit, sem. 5 (دبیر)
Freshteh Sharafi Lit, sem. 5
Malahat Hajimashhadi Lit, sem. 3
Khatereh Azizi Lit, sem. 3
Samin Rezaei TEFL, sem. 3
طی هماهنگی‌های انجام شده تو این دوره افتخار این رو داریم که با همکاری بنیاد ملی نخبگان، آکادمی شروع و مرکز تحقیقات شهید فخری‌زاده فعالیت‌های بهتر و گسترده‌تری داشته باشیم اما استفاده از این ظرفیت‌های فوق‌العاده بسته به حضور و مشارکت تک تک شماست که مزایای بسیاری رو هم برای اعضای فعال بهمراه داره.
جهت همکاری تو هر یک از تیم‌های زیر اسامی خودتون رو برای ما بفرستید :
We hope you're having a restful & productive summer so far 🌿
With many thanks to our dear friends Ms. Zeynab Alvandi & Ms. Saba Malek, who carried this responsibility with commitment & steadfast devotion. Whose presence will greatly be missed. Now, we take this torch forward with the hope of making the association stronger than before, so we, in turn, can pass it on to even stronger future members.
Here's the new team of our Scientific Association :
Mohammad Tavassoli Lit, sem. 5 (دبیر)
Freshteh Sharafi Lit, sem. 5
Malahat Hajimashhadi Lit, sem. 3
Khatereh Azizi Lit, sem. 3
Samin Rezaei TEFL, sem. 3
طی هماهنگی‌های انجام شده تو این دوره افتخار این رو داریم که با همکاری بنیاد ملی نخبگان، آکادمی شروع و مرکز تحقیقات شهید فخری‌زاده فعالیت‌های بهتر و گسترده‌تری داشته باشیم اما استفاده از این ظرفیت‌های فوق‌العاده بسته به حضور و مشارکت تک تک شماست که مزایای بسیاری رو هم برای اعضای فعال بهمراه داره.
جهت همکاری تو هر یک از تیم‌های زیر اسامی خودتون رو برای ما بفرستید :
-تیم تحریریه۱۴۰۴/۰۴/۱۴ ✨️
-طراحی (سایت، مجله، پوستر و ...)
-پادکست (مجری، تدوین و ...)
-شبکه‌های اجتماعی (اینستا، تلگرام و ...)
-تئاتر (کارگردان، نویسنده، بازیگر و ...)
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Our dear friends,
If you could picture a down to earth name for our student journal, what would it be? Share your thoughts with us. We'd love to hear it! 🤍
If you could picture a down to earth name for our student journal, what would it be? Share your thoughts with us. We'd love to hear it! 🤍
Anonymous Poll
7%
The Quill and dawn: Writing the first light of new ideas. 🪶🌄
8%
Paper Roots: Tracing every story to its silent seed. 🌱
42%
Lexora (lexis+aura): where words transcend meaning. 🪄
43%
Echolit (echoes+literature) : Echoes that change the unseen mind. ⛰️
17%
Aporia: Dwelling in the beautiful questions. ✨
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And as for our journal “Echolit” (Tnx for your votes ✨️)
📢 The call for submissions & guidelines will be posted here in a few days.
Also, since some of you from other universities reached out, quick heads-up:
While our own uni mates are the main crew, we’re always open to working with anyone studying or graduated in English-related fields 📚
We’d be hyped to have you on board 🤝
Our work, especially the journa isn’t limited to just here.
We’re planning to publish it across other universities too so it can reach & benefit everyone in the English teaching, translation, & lit community.
🔖 #Stay_tuned
📢 The call for submissions & guidelines will be posted here in a few days.
Also, since some of you from other universities reached out, quick heads-up:
While our own uni mates are the main crew, we’re always open to working with anyone studying or graduated in English-related fields 📚
We’d be hyped to have you on board 🤝
Our work, especially the journa isn’t limited to just here.
We’re planning to publish it across other universities too so it can reach & benefit everyone in the English teaching, translation, & lit community.
🔖 #Stay_tuned
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Today Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) turns 126! 🎂
Still brooding in Cuba, sipping daiquiris, & rewriting sentences until they bleed.
This man once rewrote the last page of A Farewell to Arms 39 times & when asked why, said,
He fought in wars, loved too hard, drank too much, hunted stories & animals across continents, and wrote with a style so sharp it changed the shape of sentences. (Iceberg theory)
Another legend that was born on July 21st is
🎉 Tess Gallagher turning 82 today.
Poet, essayist, fierce advocate of grief & memory.
She built her voice in the silence that followed her husband's death Raymond Carver. not by mourning, but by threading him into every line she wrote.
She believes poems are “shelters for the unsayable.”
A poet of weather, grief, & hands...
#WritersNeverDie 🕯
Still brooding in Cuba, sipping daiquiris, & rewriting sentences until they bleed.
This man once rewrote the last page of A Farewell to Arms 39 times & when asked why, said,
“Getting the words right.”
He fought in wars, loved too hard, drank too much, hunted stories & animals across continents, and wrote with a style so sharp it changed the shape of sentences. (Iceberg theory)
Another legend that was born on July 21st is
🎉 Tess Gallagher turning 82 today.
Poet, essayist, fierce advocate of grief & memory.
She built her voice in the silence that followed her husband's death Raymond Carver. not by mourning, but by threading him into every line she wrote.
“I stop in the middle of a poem... and see his hand putting a word there.”
She believes poems are “shelters for the unsayable.”
A poet of weather, grief, & hands...
#WritersNeverDie 🕯
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📣 ECHOLIT Journal
"Where words outlast the noise"
We’re now open for submissions!
Send us your:
✔ Articles
✔ Poetry
✔ Short Fiction
✔ Creative takes on language, teaching, art, music, video games, anime, films & TV—
Or anything else that echoes within the realm of literature
(Like a simple sentence you’d want it outlive you)
🗓 Deadline: 31 Mordad
📧 EcholitJournal.gu@gmail.com
For more info check out our guidelines. ✨️
"Where words outlast the noise"
We’re now open for submissions!
Send us your:
✔ Articles
✔ Poetry
✔ Short Fiction
✔ Creative takes on language, teaching, art, music, video games, anime, films & TV—
Or anything else that echoes within the realm of literature
(Like a simple sentence you’d want it outlive you)
🗓 Deadline: 31 Mordad
📧 EcholitJournal.gu@gmail.com
For more info check out our guidelines. ✨️
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In poetry sessions, u might get a comment like
“Your poem is too vague”
“What does it even mean?”
And yeah, sometimes it makes u doubt,
But then u stumble on a quote from John Ashbery :
Ashbery never wrote to explain. He wrote to open spaces,
to make u wander & keep searching, not for answers, but more questions.
And maybe that’s the point, maybe your poem doesn’t need to “make sense.”
Maybe it just needs to make someone stop,
& stay there a little longer.
#MeaningInMotion ✨️
“Your poem is too vague”
“What does it even mean?”
And yeah, sometimes it makes u doubt,
But then u stumble on a quote from John Ashbery :
“I don’t want to end a poem by giving you a message, like a fortune cookie.”
Ashbery never wrote to explain. He wrote to open spaces,
to make u wander & keep searching, not for answers, but more questions.
And maybe that’s the point, maybe your poem doesn’t need to “make sense.”
Maybe it just needs to make someone stop,
& stay there a little longer.
“In the end, it was nothing more than this:P.s. 2nd image : John & his husband David Kermani!
Just as though we had a right to know.”
— Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
#MeaningInMotion ✨️
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Invictus
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
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P.s. He lost his left leg to tuberculosis at the age of 12. In his 20s, when the disease struck his other leg, he was hospitalized again in Edinburgh. It was during this 2y confinement that he wrote Invictus.
His friend Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, later wrote in a letter to Henley’s wife:
His friend Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, later wrote in a letter to Henley’s wife:
“I will now make a confession: it was the sight of your husband, limping about the rooms… that set me on the track of Long John Silver. It was the figure of my dearest friend, the great cripple, Henley, with his crutch and his resolute soul, that I borrowed for my buccaneer.”
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GU English Association
📣 ECHOLIT Journal "Where words outlast the noise" We’re now open for submissions! Send us your: ✔ Articles ✔ Poetry ✔ Short Fiction ✔ Creative takes on language, teaching, art, music, video games, anime, films & TV— Or anything else that echoes within the…
📌 Deadline Update
We’ve received many valuable submissions ✨️ and several requests for more time.
The deadline for Echolit Journal is now extended by another 7 days. ⏳️
We’ve received many valuable submissions ✨️ and several requests for more time.
The deadline for Echolit Journal is now extended by another 7 days. ⏳️
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