President: Leonie

Core Responsibilities:

    • Managing and leading the committee
    • Acting as a lead representative and signatory of Uni-Verse
    • Writing & sending our newsletters
    • Overseeing the website & eShop


Favourite genre: magical realism

Favourite short story: The Sea in Me by Krishan Coupland

Writes: mostly about things that come to me in my dreams

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Vice-President: Philipp

Core Responsibilities:

    • President’s deputy and second-in-command: staying on top of dates, assignments, and managing expectations
    • Manage and support fellow committee members
    • Communication with venues
    • Manage other bureaucratic tasks


Favourite genre: fantasy

Favourite novel: Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Writes: prose

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Treasurer: Michelle

Core responsibilities:

    • Manage the regular finances: keeping a ledger of all in- and out-going money, refunding committee members, collecting membership fees
    • Communicate with sponsoring members
    • Manage the annual finances: compile the annual financial report, run the report by the Wardens, present annual finances at AGM


Favourite genres: poetry, murder mystery, non-fiction

Favourite poem: anything by Mary Oliver

Writes: poetry, essays

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Secretary: Eva

Core responsibilities:

    • Organizing committee meetings
    • Organizing and hosting the AGM with the VP


Favourite genres: contemporary fiction, sci-fi

Favourite novels: Looking for Alaska by John Green; The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Writes: poetry & prose

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Social Media Manager: Sarah

Core responsibilities:

    • Announcing the weekly meetings
    • Creating content for Uni-Verse’s social media channels
    • Moderating the Uni-Verse Whatsapp groups


Favourite genres: fantasy, grim dark

Writes: prose

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PR Manager: Ricarda

Core responsibilities:

    • Planning & organising events
    • Creating booklets for weekly meetings
    • Overseeing the email inbox
    • Judging poetry for the annual anthology


Favourite genres: fiction, body horror, YA

Favourite novels: The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater, Wilder Girls by Rory Power, She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Writes: poetry, fairytales

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Event Manager: Alisha

Core responsibilities:

    • Organising events
    • Networking with authors and other writing clubs
    • Supporting regular meetings
    • Judging poetry for the annual anthology


Favourite genres: fiction, poetry

Favourite novels: The Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi by Aman Sethi

Writes: poetry

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General Committee Member: Nicole

Core responsibilities:

    • Lending a helping hand wherever I’m needed


Favourite genres: fantasy, dark comedy, mystery

Favourite novels: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson; Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Writes: prose

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General Committee Member: Sofiia

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Core responsibilities:

    • Project management
    • General help
    • Bardic inspiration


Favourite genres: adventure, fantasy, fairytale

Writes: prose

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General Committee Member: Nana

Core responsibilities:

    • Lending a helping hand


Favourite genres: Psychological horror, Romance & Queer fiction

Favourite novels: Six of Crows, Monday’s not coming, If we were villains

Writes: prose