Our second meeting turned out to be even more enthusiastic than the first, which, trust me, is a first. And this is my fifth year being part of the literary association and Mount Carmel College, for that matter. So I was suitably overwhelmed to see the numbers growing.
We changed the venue to Room 29 at the last minute, because Room 24, while being small and cozy, was quite noisy and crowded. In future, let's try sticking to classrooms on that side the GJB: they are less distracting. We also decided that Monday is the best day for lit meetings. As Namratha put it, "let's have something to look forward to when another week of college starts."
Poetry reading
Since Sushmita was held up by a class meeting, I (Aditi) read from Daljit Nagra's collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! This lead to a discussion of voices in writing and dramatic monologues. Here is Nagra reading for Oxfam: Darling & Me!
The nature of our blog
By 'blog', I don't mean this thing. I mean the cool one which will be filled with our writing and artwork. This blog will be an informal literary magazine -- a project of sorts. Every few months, we will upload one issue, which will consist of artwork (photography, traditional/digital art), poetry, short stories, flash fiction, nonfiction (essays, interviews, reports, profiles, reviews, criticism, etc), cartoon strips and recordings.
The deadline for the first issue has been decided as the end of August. (We will specify a date later on.) The theme will be 'voices'. This can be interpreted in any way we like, but in the case of poetry and fictional prose, an attempt will be made to assume the voices of personae other than our own.
The name of our writing blog/project/magazine has not been confirmed. We will vote on this next week.
Cul week
Suggestions were made for what sort of writing contests we should host during Cul week (August 5 - 8). The Lit Quiz (created in collaboration with the Quiz Association) was shamelessly plugged.
Attendees
Vibha, Namratha, Bhagya, Madhavi, Tharindri, Srishti, Neha, Sana, Megan, Asawari, Greeshma, Anisha S., Anindita K., Ankita and Aditi
(Did I miss anyone out?)
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