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Call for Submissions - The Cambridge Nutter

The Cambridge Nutter is a new Comedy magazine at the University of Cambridge. It is entirely student run and welcomes contributions from outside the university.

We are currently looking for contributors! This is the perfect opportunity to get your work published. Maximum article length of 500 words.

Please email thenutter@cusu.cam.ac.uk for more information, or post a question in this forum.

I'm a student at Winchester, and would be interested into contributing. What are you looking for - opinion pieces, or short "quickies"?

Some pointers as to what you want would be nice.

Do you want jokes? Funny short stories? Articles about trying to be funny? Reviews of comedy? All of the above? Something else entirely?

Don't ask for much, do I? :D

Thanks

Hi,

Thank you for your questions. We welcome all kinds of contributions as long as it makes us laugh and most things do. Here is the description we have in our facebook group to give you an idea of the kind of thing we like :D

"Description

Do you love serious, thought provoking journalism? Want to have your voice heard? Want to change the world one hard hitting article at a time? Then this is definitely not the publication for you. Get involved; we are entirely student run and are looking for contributors. As long as what you write amuses us and most things do, we will include your work.

Sections

1. Cambridge News - A satirical tak
e on the developments within the University. Mainly looking at things in the student papers and having a good laugh about them.

2.General News - Both at a national and international level. Looking at what’s happening in the world satirizing it, highlighting the craziest bits and also making some of it up.

3.Essential Guides - Funny survival guides on pretty much anything to do with student life or life in general. Some quick ideas, excuses for giving work in late and extending deadlines, essential Latin phrase book of pick-up lines, Corridor Olympics, Fun things to do in lectures and supervisions, Mock fresher's guide.

4.Comedy Writing - Just a miscellaneous section for funny short stories, comment on Cambridge life and everything else.

5.Interviews - Hopefully interviews with famous comedians / comedy writers, finding out what gives them inspiration, how they gained fame, what advice they have for new comedians, what their favourite mythical creature is etc.

6.Cartoons/Comics"

If you want to run an idea by me or have any other questions please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Great, thanks for the clarification. Is there any upcoming deadline for this i.e. when are you looking to get out your first issue?

Hi Bren,

Thanks for your question. The deadline for the upcoming issue is the 30th of September.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hey guys,

Here is an idea for articles that we want.

1. Univeristy student survival guides: e.g. budgeting, meeting deadlines, transport, accomodation, dating, cooking etc. obviously all written in a funny satircal style.

2. Satircal University Encyclopedia : basically just take a well know aspect of univeristy life and make a satircal mock encylopedia definition of it. e.g halls, pre-drinks, freshers, societies, student union etc

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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