Featured Artist: Laura Southgate He tore out my heart, to make it his—battering iron bands around my bleating pulpand crammed back in.I miss a time without pain,every little beat bangs against sharp iron. My master made me watch,slipping each one on slowly, slowlyto draw out the strangulation from the weight.I wanted it to endbut my…
Black Lives Matter student activists speak out about combatting racism and protesting for change. By Kerry Power and Ryann OverbayPhotography: Damon Simms and Caleb Nelson Katie Unnithan, 20, and Tyrek Morris, 21, share their experiences of anti-racism activism, the Black Lives Matter movement, and how they got their start organising protests in the name of…
In each issue, aAh! Magazine interrogates one word which runs as a theme throughout our published submissions. The theme of our next issue is DISRUPTION. What does it mean to disrupt? Formed from the Latin prefix “dis,” meaning apart or asunder, and the Latin root “rupt,” meaning to break, the word disrupt brings to mind…
In each issue, aAh! Magazine interrogates one word which runs as a theme throughout our published submissions. The theme of our next issue is DISRUPTION. What does it mean to disrupt? Formed from the Latin prefix “dis,” meaning apart or asunder, and the Latin root “rupt,” meaning to break, the word disrupt brings to mind…
By Kerry Power and Meera Jacob Unpublished writers were given the opportunity to pitch to established agents as part of the 2020 National Creative Writing Industry Conference. The event was organised by Comma Press, a Manchester-based publishing house, and held in partnership with the Manchester Writing School. For many aspiring authors, the NCWIC offered them…
aAh! is Manchester Metropolitan University's official arts and culture student magazine.
