Northwestern Qatar students launch journal
22 Apr 2021 - 10:15
The Peninsula
Doha: Northwestern Qatar students have launched an online literary journal – Wisteria – that will publish the students writing in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and art.
Inspired by the unprecedented challenges of 2020 and the creative output that resulted from it, the students – who worked with Northwestern Qatar Professor Sam Meekings – produced the online publication to promote the creativity and diversity of the school’s student body.
According to Meekings, the projects “promote communication, connection, creativity and community. The journal is a celebration of our creative voices,” he said, “which are particularly important right now as so many of these poems, stories and artwork highlight ways of finding strength and perseverance during difficult times. I really believe that creative work has the ability to bring a community together in conversation and discovery.”