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SCOURGE Magazine is a cutting-edge literary/arts journal providing students in the Bath and Bristol area with a unique forum to share their work, express their ideas and discuss issues that affect them in academia and the wider world.
INTRODUCING THE EDITOR: Hi all! My name's Simon Regan and I'm a third-year student at Bath Spa University. In my first and second years I was disappointed by the lack of a student-run publication that specifically engaged with the University's world-class School of English and Creative Writing, and realised that there was no accessible forum for students and other local people to have their say on subjects that specifically interest or concern them. I initially came up with the idea of producing a weekly A4 flyer that would discuss issues relevant to students in the Bath and Bristol area: since then it's turned into a fully- fledged web and print journal carrying quality prose, poetry, local news and reviews.
OUR VALUES: A major personal point that I have tried to carry into SCOURGE is a keen dedication to "truth-seeking" - the discussion and examination of claims relevant to any and every subject imaginable for everyone to make up their own minds. I strongly feel that modern print, and to a certain extent digitally distributed, media has become too timid to act as a champion for the creative rights and artistic expression of the ordinary person, and has instead become mired in an ocean of circular thinking, inoffensively "fuzzy" viewpoints and journalistic elitism. The result of this has been to shut down genuine social dialogue that would help to build a united worldview, instead promoting compromise that ironically results in a slide towards the least tolerant and most totalitarian systems.
If there is to be a true revival of scientific thought and democratic values in our society, it needs to start with a media that is willing to engage in fearless examination of contemporary issues. SCOURGE Magazine's name reflects this, being suggestive of the inquisitorial, irreverent attitude to life that must characterise anyone who is truly dedicated to seeking out and discovering the truth. SCOURGE is unique amongst modern print publications in offering a "right of reply" to any (suitably focused and insightful) response to any piece previously published.
WHAT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO: Most of all, however, SCOURGE is about showcasing talent and providing writers, philosophers, story-tellers and poets with a platform from which to speak. If you've got a brain and an opinion, we want to hear from you, so drop us a line.
Welcome To The Site
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Hello and welcome to the SCOURGE Magazine website. This is a placeholder until we can start to put some more content up. We'll upload the best articles and prose and poetry submissions from our previous issues for online viewing; you'll be able to access each section from the navigation bar at the top of the page.
If you want to contribute to the magazine, please contact the editor here with a brief summary of the proposed material.