Most of our meetings are on Sundays at 8pm in Trinity College. We will meet at the Trinity Porter's Lodge from 7:50pm before making our way to the meeting room (usually the Teaching Room 5).
See below for details, sign up for the ousfg-announce mailing list to receive a reminder and details for each meeting, or check on Discord for smaller updates.
Please remember that Sunday is the first day of the Oxford Week, so do check the dates below if you are unsure.
27 Apr | Sunday | 1st Week | Trinity | Discussion | Desert Planet TV Series. a.k.a. TV recommendations evening. Come recommend or be recommended SFF TV, and then to vote for the ones we would take with us if we were to get stranded on desert planet. In the future we might even watch a winner together! |
4 May | Sunday | 2nd Week | Trinity | Discussion | Award winning author and former OUSFG president, Frances Hardinge will be joining our discussion. |
11 May | Sunday | 3rd Week | Trinity | Discussion |
Collaborative storytelling discussion, Tentacular Vikings
takes a theme and runs with it as we all work together to write (or at least plan) a story.
Last year we started with a fortuitous cat and a prompt "The oceans rise to hide a gate" and
plotted a tale of exploration and discovery.
Previous stories have involved
a miners' strike on the surface of the sun,
Boom Sticks,
the St Giles' Fair's role in keeping freshers
from disappearing into parallel dimensions,
and finally an explanation for why we keep crashing on that dratted desert planet.
Oh yes, and tentacular Vikings. |
18 May | Sunday | 4th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Story retellings: fairytales and fanfiction. Fairytales retellings (eg. Witcher). Interplay between Fanfiction and published works. Discussion led by Paulina and Luke. |
25 May | Sunday | 5th Week | Trinity | Quiz? | Oxford Geek Quiz run by another society. TBC. |
1 Jun | Sunday | 6th Week | ? | Discussion | Joint meeting with Boardgames society. May include Werewolf. |
8 Jun | Sunday | 7th Week | ? | Discussion | Long-Term books. Books set over long time periods: how do you maintain a narrative over a thousand years? A million years? Discussion led by Hera. |
15 Jun | Sunday | 8th Week | OUSFG Library | Library meet & end of term party |
In addition, we will be having a (mostly) weekly creative writing group meeting, starting 11am Sunday 1st Week in Blackwells. Subsequent meetings probably on Saturdays. See Discord for details.
We also plan a punt party some afternoon in 7th or 8th Week.