Journal: Turning Pages
Turning Pages: Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
The Professorship of English Literatures is happy to announce the establishment of "Turning Pages" - the first creative writing magazine at TU Chemnitz of its kind that appears annually and seeks to unite original writing in English from students, staff and writers from all over the world.
Please find the last issues below.
Please find the Call for Submissions 2024 here (PDF).
Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
Hg: Cecile Sandten, Mandy Beck
Issue 5, 2023
The contributions of this issue, with which we celebrate the fifth anniversary of Turning Pages, cover a wide range of topics with regard to people’s different stages in life, such as finding one’s home and identity, forgetting and remembering, reflecting on love and relationships, or reviewing everyday life from a new angle. But many poems, stories, photographs, and art works also capture the mysteries in life, where the borders between reality and fantasy are sometimes blurred, or where some things are hidden in plain sight. As is characteristic of Turning Pages, this issue features professional writers from all over the world, such as Vincent Broqua, Srinjay Chakravarti, Julia Davis-Nosko, Sonja Frenzel, Andreas Gloge and Shamshad Khan, alongside first-time writers and contributors from Chemnitz and beyond.
Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
Hg: Cecile Sandten, Mandy Beck
Issue 4, 2022
The fourth issue of Turning Pages reviews the period of the Corona crisis in a variety of texts, photographs, and visual artworks, which represent the effects that the pandemic has had on our everyday life over the last two years. The contributions further offer contrasting perspectives, by focusing, for example, on topics that address the city vs. nature, or recent social and political events vs. events that relate to the personal history and experiences of an individual. Overall, the issue combines a number of published authors from all over the world, including Nick Asbury, Tanaka Chidora, Jan Kemp, Tabish Khair, Agnes Lam, and Alecia McKenzie, with non-professional writers inside and outside of the university, as well as visual storytellers and photographers with visual and graphic artists.
Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
Hg: Cecile Sandten, Mandy Beck
Issue 3, 2021
The third issue of Turning Pages is about facing and overcoming personal struggles as well as the challenges of the present time by venturing out into public life again, after months of isolation and standstill. A range of contributions by professional and published authors such as Shanta Acharya, Ranu Uniyal, Andreas Gloge and Tobias Schlosser, but also a selection of pictures by photographers such as Natalie Bleyl and Martina Gloge enhances and complements the multifaceted textual and graphic pieces by students and first-time writers.
Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
Hg: Cecile Sandten, Mandy Beck
Issue 2, 2020
The second issue of Turning Pages includes a variety of foci, ranging from meta-poetic texts and stories, to graphic artworks and illustrations via themes of belonging in an ever-changing world, tracing one’s origins, conquering personal struggles, or dealing with current incidents like COVID-19 and self-isolation. This issue combines students from diverse fields and backgrounds with professional writers from all over the world, such as Srishti Chaudhary, Andreas Gloge, Ogaga Ifowodo, Harald Linke, and Ian Watson.
Turning Pages - An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology
Hg: Cecile Sandten, Mandy Beck
Issue 1, 2019
Turning Pages is an annual journal of bright voices from all over the world in creative and original writing in English in short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, as well as in drawings, art projects and many other related genres by students, academics, and writers. It is a production of the Chair of English Literatures at Chemnitz University of Technology and the first journal of its kind at the university.