The Wells Street Journal

04/12/2022

24/11/2022

The new season includes four world premieres, two further productions and two shows to be performed in schools. It also includes the touring company visiting more than forty venues across Scotland…

23/11/2022

03/10/2022

The Wells Street Journal submission date is extended to 5th of October 2022. All submissions are to be emailed to [email protected]. For more details refer the post on guidelines https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZJ-l-MUOK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Send in your valuable creations before the deadline!

11/04/2022

TODAYS THE DAY!

It's time to celebrate! We just wanted to say thank you to all the amazing writers that have sent in their work, it's really made this issue come alive!

Also wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone that worked on this issue. A lot of hard work, stress and dedication really went into this and it's finally here to prove it was all worth it.

Congratulations and happy reading!

Find the e-publication on the WSJ journal website now!

https://wellsstreetjournal.com/

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10/04/2022

1 DAY UNTIL PUBLICATION! Not long now until the journal can be read by all of you! We can't wait to see what you think!

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09/04/2022

2 DAYS TILL PUBLICATION! Look out on The Wells Street Journal website for the e-pub version of our Journal coming out Monday!

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09/04/2022

2 DAYS TILL PUBLICATION! Look out on The Wells Street Journal website for the e-pub version of our Journal coming out Monday!

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08/04/2022

It's almost that time again!

Our team has been working so hard to bring out the newest issue of the journal. After reading and editing submissions, it's finally time to announce that the e-publication is almost ready!

Get ready for Issue 17!

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07/04/2022

After all the hard work, the day of the launch is finally drawing near. Mark you calendar and look forward to the live event of the launch that will be aired in this account ! Looking forward to having you all as a part of our celebration 🍾 ❤️🎉🎈🥳🎁🎊

03/04/2022

Since the launch date for issue 17 is approaching, we have asked our team members about their writing space and process. This is what one of our team members Rukaiya have shared with us:

“My writing process is pretty straight forward. I write when I am inspired and that can be any time of the day and anywhere: whether it is at home, or a cafe or just another street corner, It doesn't matter. When I write I like to read a couple of books, which then help me frame the style, the plot and the type of piece I am writing.”

You can find more of Rukaiya’s brilliant writings through her blogs

https://rukaiyasiamwalawri.wixsite.com/my-site

https://rukaiyasiamwalawri.wixsite.com/rukaiyasiamwala

02/04/2022

Since the launch date for issue 17 is approaching, we have asked our team members about their writing space and their process this is what one of our team members Isaac have shared with us:

“ I don’t really have a process. I sit down, relax, eat, maybe watch a few interesting YouTube videos and then I think up ideas and storylines that excite me. On second thought, I guess that kind of is a process, but hey, it works.”

31/03/2022

A poetry workshop done by one of our team members Mehak

Hope you enjoyed this workshop and see you in another one 👋🏻❤️

31/03/2022

A poetry workshop done by one of our team members Mehak

Hope you enjoyed this workshop and see you in another one 👋🏻❤️

29/03/2022

This book recommendation was sent in by one of our team members Shaymaa Alqallaf

This book makes Shaymaa feel nostalgic as it reminds her of her trip to St. Louis, Missouri. She first laid her eyes on this book at urban outfitters. Whenever she sees the stars, the pink cover, and the blue zodiac signs, she is immediately taken back to that moment when she rediscovered her love of astrology.

28/03/2022

This author recommendation was sent in by one of our team members
Mehak .

Mehak explains her love for Danielle Steel’s writings by saying:

If you are from South Asia, you come with certain unwritten norms; which books you can read, what movies to watch, which genres to avoid. But if you are a rebel, you will not only stick to John Grisham in your 12s and 13s. Danielle Steel was that marker of rebellion for some reason, you will have to ask a brown mom the explanation for. At the age of 13, when I had yet to experience emotions as deep as Steel portrayed, she made me nostalgic. I was nostalgic for love, for family, and ironically, for grief.

28/03/2022

This music album was sent in by one of our team members isaac .mckenzie when asked what kind of music makes him nostalgic:

2014 Forest Hills Drive is an album I grew up with. If I hear it now it’s like I’m transported back to Summer 2013. I’m sixteen, waking up to catch the train every day and running late for my classes. I’ve heard the phrase ‘music is the soundtrack to your life’ and this album for me is the epitome of that phrase. It evokes some of my most vivid memories.


One thing music does is momentarily take us back to a part of our life that we remember, fondly or not. Do you have any songs or albums that bring you Nostalgia? Let me see your answers below 👇🏻

27/03/2022

This album “Pills N Thrills and Bellaches” by Happy Mondays was sent to us by one of our team members Lee when asked what music makes them feel nostalgic.

Lee tells us:

I was 15 in 1990 when this was album released. Happy Mondays were the first band that I got into, and I still love them. I’d owned other albums (Madonna was my first love!) but this was MINE. I GOT this music. It was funky and dirty and felt, well, a bit dangerous. Just look at that title! It was the soundtrack to my last year in school and although I have listened to it pretty much solidly since, each time I put it on, I go back there.


What music makes you feels nostalgic?

26/03/2022

This photograph titled “Ironic Nostalgia” was sent in by one of our members

For Mehak this picture of London represents nostalgia as she says:

Human nature and London will always be the 'other'. You crave for peace, London will be bustling. You crave for crowd, London will be empty.

20/03/2022

This album has been

Waking up in my house on a weekend morning meant music playing from the downstairs speakers, getting ready for football practise and then coming home and doing homework and household chores. Mahogany Soul is an album that whenever I hear it reminds me of those times. Even when I’m not in the house, when I hear it I feel like grabbing for the hoover!

16/03/2022

This quote was sent in by one of our team members Joseph

His reason as to why he’s chosen this quote: I have read Zorba time and time again. I love it’s simplistic outlook towards life and happiness, and it’s an outlook I try to live by myself.

16/03/2022

Meet the team for issue 17 !


Joseph is a writer and playwright from Alexandria, Egypt. He is a member of Gwana Group for Performative Arts. His short stories have been published in Hobart, URJe, Welkins, and Wells Street Journal.

13/03/2022

This book recommendation was sent in by one of our team members Hanna Komar.

The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym

Does nostalgia need to be a sweet feeling? Collective nostalgia - does it lead us forward or pulls us back? Svetlana Boym guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities — St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky, unraveling the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes through personal memoir, philosophical essay and historycal analysis.

12/03/2022

Attention 🗣
Attention 📢
Everyone

The wsj team have added some copies of the last wsj issue 16 at the book swap corner at Westminster university 🥰. If you are interested please drop by and grab a copy to read some amazing fiction and poetry from our notable writers 🙏🏻☺️.
Hope to see you soon ❤️

11/03/2022

Meet the team for issue 17 !


Eleanor is a recent graduate of English Literature and History and, after studying and enjoying other’s work for so long, has decided to try her hand at Creative Writing. After re-finding her love for it during the Covid 19 Pandemic. She writes predominantly prose and poetry and is currently working on a piece that asks the question whether the heroes of Ancient Greece would have been as great if their stories had taken place in modern day London.

09/03/2022

I have read Zorba time and time again. I love it’s simplistic outlook towards life and happiness, and it’s an outlook I try to live by myself.