Like many of us, I grew up worshipping the Twilight books and films. I read and watched them over and over. I would make a countdown of the days until the next instalment came out in the cinema. My love of reading began from that silly story about a clumsy girl and a boring diamond…
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Concrete Awards 2020
You can see the winners of the Concrete Awards at the bottom of this page and on our social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Editor-in-Chief Chris Matthews: I am immensely proud of what Concrete has achieved this year. From running a successful mental health campaign to investigating stories on campus and being shortlisted…
Film, Venue
R-Patz: Heartthrob to Artthrob
Robert Pattinson dazzled our screens (quite literally) in 2008 with the adaptation of teen hit Twilight, which would go on to produce four more films in the same series and spark Patz’s well-known embarrassment and public hatred for the films. His scruffy hair and gruff demeanour bewitched coming of age kids and bemused their parents….
Creative Writing
Pull
I often think about all the loose threads I throw away. How many times I’ve cut the circulation in my thumb whilst pulling a stubborn cotton thread off the hem of a sleeve. The throbbing sensation as the blood charges back into my finger like commuters cramming onto the tube at rush hour. Those small…
Travel
Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
The tune to Oklahoma plays on the school bells as I hurry from the top of campus to the bottom. It is -7 degrees celsius but my Snapchat is blowing up with people drinking snakebites in the UEA square. My campus, is a dry campus. Oklahoma is a difficult place for most people to point…
Travel
America by Amelia
Alas, I am finally 21, a legal adult in every country. I had the best birthday, thank you for asking. Jetting off to New York and meeting my wonderful and slightly odd family and, of course, Alex. We stayed a stone’s throw away from Central Park and drank copious amounts of prosecco. On the night…
Travel
4 Final Pieces 3 Hour Calls 2 Bus Trips Later And a cockroach nest behind the fridge
Hello doting fans, it is I returning in a much better mood than previously. Why so? – I hear you ask. The past week has been Thanksgiving Break here in the US which means students flock home in their masses to be fed turkey and mashed potato, which ultimately left me alone in my four…
Travel
Coming to America: The weather outside is frightful
I’ve been watching a lot of Gavin & Stacey at the moment. Firstly because it’s absolutely one of the best British comedies to have ever been made. Second of all, because it reminds me of home. I’ve been called a ‘Pam’ more than once. America is great (not to be confused with make great again)…
Travel
Coming to America
The queue for customs in Chicago takes two hours and my connecting flight has already left. I am crying. I leave my phone at the desk when checking my bags in for the next flight and don’t realise until I’m leaving the terminal. I cry more. A wonderful steward finds it for me and gives…
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