05/09/2024
Our themes for Michaelmas 2024! 🦁📰
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In Hilary Term 2013, two students from Oriel College, Niamh Gordon and Katie Ebner-Landy, decided to start a college newspaper, written by and for students. After a term of sourcing, writing, collating, editing and finally printing, the first issue of The Poor Print was released – to indubitably great acclaim. After a year's interregnum in 2013–14, The Poor Print returned in Michaelmas 2014 in a n
ew guise – as an online newspaper – and since Michaelmas 2015 has additionally been published fortnightly in print. Still run by students, the core aim is promoting and stimulating art, culture and free-thinking on a wide range of subjects, from the comic, serious and quotidian happenings of collegiate life to global events, developments and sensations. Content consists of a hugely wide variety of written, visual, and aural creativity, including news, poetry, photography, science, comment, drawing, music, events and entertainment. The Poor Print's ethos is based on attempting to get as many people as involved as possible and thereby to offer a broad range of perspectives and insights into a portion of what goes on amid the essays, problem sheets and lectures which, if left unchecked, invariably subsume the Oxford calendar. Any member of Oriel (JCR, MCR, SCR or staff) can send in contributions via [email protected] – articles, prose composition, poetry, cartoons, artwork, music, or anything else you can think of is welcomed! Each edition has a theme to stimulate submissions – to be added to the mailing list and be kept up to date with the theme and any other news, just fill out the 30-second form in the menu. There's no need to check ideas with us beforehand - but if you'd like to, feel free! As a rough guide, we ask for most written pieces other than poetry to be between 200 and 1200 words, but this is far from a hard-and-fast rule.
05/09/2024
Hi everyone,
Hope you've all had a great vac so far! We wouldn't dare to disrupt your summer peace if it wasn't for the extremely exciting news we're about to tell you. Our team has decided to change a few things to improve the newspaper:
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Firstly, we would like the themes for our issues to be more inspiring and less restrictive, so for Michaelmas the prompts are now phrases and not single words.
Finally, we'll be announcing themes and accepting submissions for all 4 Michaelmas themes starting right now!
The themes for Michaelmas 2024 are:
Heart of the city
Shivers down your spine?
Moments that shape us
Baby, it's cold outside!
Send your submissions at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/
01/09/2024
17/05/2024
Feeling reluctant to go out with your friends, or revise for your exams? Our next theme, ‘RELUCTANCE’, taps into that ubiquitous feeling. We’d love to receive your submissions: https://thepoorprint.com/submit/
07/05/2024
Got any burning questions or need advice on a particular issue? Meet Beary McBearface, The Poor Print’s resident agony aunt in ursine form. He is always happy to respond to any questions you have on college concerns and worries, answering them in his regular column, ‘Dear Beary’. Submit questions to him at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/, or simply write them in the comments below.
And a reminder that the theme for this weekend’ issue is ‘Womanhood’. We’re still accepting submissions, so please send them to us via https://thepoorprint.com/submit/ or email!
03/05/2024
By popular request of JCR members, our next theme is ♀️ ‘WOMANHOOD’ ♀️ – submissions due next week! Please contribute any of your poetry, prose, artwork, music, crosswords, etc., or get in touch with us if you have any questions. Send in your pieces at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/
03/05/2024
Here is our latest issue: #101 – ‘Sentiment’. Many thanks to everyone who sent in their pieces last week! They’re also available on our website: thepoorprint.com
24/04/2024
Got any sentimental moments to share? This weekend’s Poor Print theme – ‘SENTIMENT’ – is the perfect opportunity to muse about your opinions, affections, beliefs, feelings, and more. We accept pieces of all types! https://thepoorprint.com/submit/
20/04/2024
By popular demand, here are the Poor Print themes for Trinity 2024: ‘Sentiment’💝, ‘Womanhood’♀️, ‘Reluctance’😬 and ‘Pride’🌈.
Feeling inspired already? Get writing/drawing/composing and submit your work at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/ today! 🦁📰⏳
20/04/2024
As we approach the start of Trinity term, here’s a quick look back at issue #100 (‘CENTURY’) from the end of Hilary! Find the pieces, as usual, on our website: https://thepoorprint.com/
22/02/2024
In Michaelmas 2015, we published the first print issue of The Poor Print – ‘Beginnings’. More than eight years and 99 editions later, we’re pleased to celebrate issue #100, aptly titled 🎉 ‘CENTURY’ 💯. Submissions welcome, on any topic you like! https://thepoorprint.com/submit/
19/02/2024
The latest Poor Print issue ( #99 – ‘Lingering’) features reflections on the change of seasons, the nature of scientific research, and to-go coffee. Pick up a print copy in the usual places in college, or peruse the pieces online on our website.
11/02/2024
Doesn’t it just feel like time is dragging on as we pass through the middle of term and the academic year? Arriving just in time for you to beat those 5th-week blues, our next theme is 🕰️‘LINGERING’⏳.
Nagging feelings or unrequited crushes troubling you? Get them off your chest and onto the pages of The Poor Print! Send in your submissions to us at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/.
11/02/2024
Here is last weekend’s issue of The Poor Print ( #98 – ‘Apologies’), with a special thanks to our first-time contributors! Print copies are still available around college, and you can peruse all the pieces online at https://thepoorprint.com/tag/issue-98-apologies/.
28/01/2024
They say the hardest word to say is ‘sorry’. Regardless of whether this is true, the next Poor Print theme is ‘APOLOGIES’. This would be the perfect opportunity to write some moody lyrics addressed to your ex or a create melancholy artwork encapsulating feelings of regret.
Send your pieces to us at https://thepoorprint.com/submit/ – you’ll be sorry you didn’t!
28/01/2024
Here is last weekend’s issue of The Poor Print – #97: ‘Consciousness’ – now on our website and available around college.
Motivated to write something in response to a piece recently published in the paper? Submissions are now open for the next issue – we look forward to receiving them. Get in touch if you have any questions!
14/01/2024
Wake up! New Poor Print theme just dropped ...
Rouse yourself from unconsciousness 🥱⏰ and behold ‘CONSCIOUSNESS’, our first theme of term. Do you feel something creative stirring up within you?
The Poor Print warmly welcomes pieces of any genre from all members of college – even if you’ve never contributed before! Please submit to us at thepoorprint.com/submit. We encourage you to send them in by Wednesday, but (hopefully like your tutor) we’re very flexible about deadlines.
12/01/2024
Happy New Year from The Poor Print, and a warm welcome back amidst the chilly weather! Oriel’s student newspaper is back with four new themes to spark your creativity – check out the poster for details. This term also marks a special milestone for the paper: issue #100, ‘Century’. Look out for the special issue at the end of term!
Feeling inspired already? Send in your creative submissions, one and all, at thepoorprint.com/submit today.
17/11/2023
Our last issue of term, with a theme chosen by popular demand! Send your habitual submissions to us at thepoorprint.com/submit. 🦁📰
14/11/2023
The opinionated oppidans of Oriel have offered an order of , expressed in various creative genres, for publication in our latest issue. Check them out in print (copies to be found around college), or on our website. 🦁📰
05/11/2023
Got opinions about something? 🗣️🗯️ Well if so, you’re in luck, as that’s exactly the theme for The Poor Print’s next issue. Send us your hot takes or other creative works, and we’ll publish them for all of college to see: thepoorprint.com/submit. 🦁📰
31/10/2023
is the knowledge that the newest issue of The Poor Print is now available in print around college and on our website at thepoorprint.com. Check out: poetry about pigeons, breakfasts, yearnings (in translation!) and hypocrisies • musings on current belligerents • the interface between music, art and dance. Feeling inspired? Submit your creativity to us today (thepoorprint.com/submit)!
21/10/2023
Are you still dreaming? Or is this Hogwartesque experience – fancy gowns, dead languages, and (orange-daubed) Palladian architecture – actually your new reality?
The next issue of The Poor Print bears the theme ‘REALISM’. Did you know that all of our print issues are archived for posterity in the Oriel library? Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to go down in history by submitting to us at thepoorprint.com/submit.
17/10/2023
Our first issue of the academic year, #93 – ‘Origin’, is out now. Check out some original works from your favourite Oriel creatives, and one contribution from an eager fresher! Copies are available in the lodge and elsewhere in college, or find us online at thepoorprint.com.
01/10/2023
Hello all and welcome back!!
We hope you've missed The Poor Print as much as we've missed you!❤️🫶
Check out the exciting themes we've got for you this term.
We know some of you were looking forward to seeing some of the themes you voted for.
The powers that be (Poor Print Editorial Team) will satisfy your needs in time!
Keep an eye out over the upcoming terms for your favourite themes.😉
04/06/2023
The solutions to Hamish Dodd’s crossword in last week’s issue ( #91: ‘Water’) are now available on our website: https://thepoorprint.com/2023/05/28/cryptic-crossword-5/. Get in touch with us if you’d like to submit a puzzle of your own creation for publication, of any type!
[Editorial correction: The solution for 25 Across has six letters, not seven as stated in the print version.]
01/06/2023
Time just seems to pass so quickly, doesn’t it? With Trinity term already drawing to a close, many of us will be looking back at our time at Oriel, perhaps thinking of things accomplished or undone. As per tradition, the theme for our last issue of the year, 📼‘REMINISCENCE’⌛, offers an ideal opportunity to give voice to your reflection as you prepare to leave Oxford, whether for the summer or for good.
Please send in your creative fruits to https://thepoorprint.com/submit/ by Wednesday! As ever, we accept submissions of all varieties, and feel free to interpret the theme (or not) however you like.
30/05/2023
Too busy with exams to catch Oriel College Boat Club on the river last week? Here’s a ‘quick summary’ of what happened, with insider knowledge of strengths and weaknesses, courtesy of Carolina Cortés Vilaplana – available now in our latest print issue ( #91: ‘Water’) and on our website at https://thepoorprint.com/2023/05/28/a-quick-summary-of-oriels-summer-eights-campaign/.
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