Our posters are up and with the deadline approaching the editorial inbox is already besieged by the printed workings of Oxbridge’s imagination.
But the only way you’ll be seeing your work in Mays XVIII is if you send it to us before the end of the month. Here are a few DOS AND DONTS:
Oh, please…
Do send in anything exciting or challenging or beautiful or provocative or original that can be printed in 2D. Apparently someone once submitted a (dead) trout as their ‘Original Composition’ for Tripos. They hadn’t worded the rubric carefully enough and so they had to mark the trout. I heard it got a mid-II.2. NB: Fauna will NOT be considered for publication.
Do stop writing at: **** midnight on 31st March, 2010 ****
Do send your work, as an attachment, to mays@varsity.co.uk with the word ‘submission’ in the subject line. Include your name, college and email address in the body of your message, but not in the attachment – submissions are considered anonymously.
Do check out our short film competition – see below for more information.
But whatever you do…
Don’t send in more than three submissions.
Don’t give us any previously published work. Well done, but we’re not interested.
Don’t send us anything unless you’re a current student at Cambridge or Oxford University.
UNACCEPTABLE: Alaskan Rainbow Trout
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Short Film Competition
The Mays is no longer just about poetry, prose and pictures. Because this year – right now in fact – we are launching the very first Mays Short Film Competition.
Submissions of films under one hour in length (though they can be much shorter) and of any genre are invited from anyone currently studying at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. These may be narrative, documentary, impressionistic or otherwise.
The closing date for the competition is April 26 2010.
Our panel of boffins will assess all submissions and shortlisted entries will be screened at a maysMovies showcase evening, at the end of which the winner will be announced.
Hard copy entries may be mailed to: Elliot Ross, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
Links to online versions can also be sent in to: mays@varsity.co.uk
