President

Florentina

Core Responsibilities:

  • Hosting and moderating the weekly writers’ meetings
  • Hosting the committee meetings
  • Acting as a lead representative and signatory of Uni-Verse
  • Managing and leading the committee

Favourite genre: gothic horror

Favourite poem: “It’s all I have to bring today” by Emily Dickinson

Writes: poetry and prose

Vice-President

Sebastian

Core Responsibilities:

  • President’s deputy and second-in-command: staying on top of dates, assignments, and managing expectations
  • Host bi-weekly meetings & cohost monthly committee meetings with the President
  • Manage and support fellow committee members
  • Manage other bureaucratic tasks
  • Creating the booklet

Favourite genre: fantasy

Favourite novels: Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell, Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Writes: prose

Treasurer

Claudia

Core responsibilities:

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

Favourite genres: fantasy and poetry

Favourite poem: “The Primrose” by Robert Burns and “Empty Flat” by Florentina 🙂

Writes: poetry

Secretary

Leonie

Core responsibilities:

  • Preparing the agenda for & taking minutes during committee meetings
  • Writing our newsletters
  • Overseeing the website
  • Organising and hosting the AGM with the VP

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

Social Media Manager

Sarah

Core responsibilities:

  • Announcing the weekly meetings
  • Creating content for Uni-Verse’s social media channels
  • Moderating the Uni-Verse Facebook & Whatsapp groups
  • Overseeing the email inbox

Favourite genres: fantasy, grim dark

Favourite novels:

Writes: prose

Event Manager

Ricarda

Core responsibilities:

  • Planning & organising events
  • 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

Event Organiser

Alisha

Core responsibilities:

  • Organising events
  • 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

Bonus Member

Charlotte

Core responsibilities:

  • Lending a helping hand
  • Organising certain special events

Favourite genre: I think there are great stories in every genre

Favourite poem: Breakfast conversations by Florentina (our president) 🙂

Writes: all kinds of stories about people and their experiences and feelings