About

About the Journal

The ENIGMA Journal, which was founded in 2019 by the University of Exeter Creative Writing Society, provides a platform for poetry, fiction, nonfiction and script writing. We publish original writing online and produce an annual print journal, the first of which came out in August 2020.

The name of the journal takes inspiration from the Exeter Book, which is the largest known collection of Old English literature still in existence. Many of the texts included in the collection are riddles, some were written in Old English but others are written in Latin. The form and genre of the riddle was called enigmata ('enigmas') in the Latin language.

The name ENIGMA is a salute to a literary history central to Exeter, but the journal strives to create a collection of creative work that delivers a myriad of perspectives on the world we live in and the people we have become. The journal aims to curate an exciting and experimental terrain of new voices and narratives that can broadcast to audiences the creative output of the writing community here in Exeter.

Editorial Team 2023/24

Journal Director
Ben Blackwell

Head Fiction Editor
Catherine Hurcombe

Social Media Manager & Fiction Editor
Talia Bunting

Fiction Editor
Isabel London

Fiction Editor
Mia Manton

Fiction Editor
Gabriella Chiu

Fiction Editor
Sarah Gould

Fiction Editor
Abigail Barrow

Fiction Editor
Jack Tickner

Fiction Editor
Amber Platel

Fiction Editor
Katherine Gilbert

Fiction Editor
Thomas Tran

Fiction Editor
Lauren Walsh

Fiction Editor
Nigella Kym Marx

Fiction Editor
Elizabeth Greenwood-Spicer

Fiction & Script Editor
Mia Bromley

Fiction & Non-Fiction Editor
Ella Geraghty

Editorial Team 2022/23

Journal Director
Mercedes-Georgia Mayes

Print Director
Kadri Aston

Assistant Poetry Editor
Molly Arabella Kirk

Poetry Editor
Erin Ward

Poetry Editor
Anna Crosland

Poetry Editor
Matthew Aaronson

Poetry Editor
Ocean Tawiah

Poetry Editor
Zander Crofts

Editorial Team 2021/22

Journal Director
Sylvie Lewis

Assistant Fiction Editor
Imogen Love

Assistant Poetry Editor
Lisa Greghi

Assistant Nonfiction Editor
Rebecca Coyler

Fiction Editor / Print Director
Henry Hood

Poetry Editor
Blakeney Clark

Poetry Editor
Aislinn Nolan

Poetry Editor
Molly Kirk

Poetry Editor
Ocean Tawiah

Poetry Editor
Hannah Dow

Editorial Team 2020/21

Fiction Editor
Susannah Hearn

Fiction Editor
Sophie Blake

Fiction Editor
Anna Young

Assistant Editor
Sylvie Lewis

Assistant Editor
Vibhuti Verma

Assistant Editor/Social Media Executive
Bamboo Trinh

Editorial Team 2019/20

Editorial Team 2018/19