Goldfish

Goldfish 2023

Welcome to Goldfish, the annual anthology of writing by Masters students in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. This year’s anthology includes poetry, short stories, life writing, and extracts from novels. It is an opportunity to discover new writers and dip into new worlds.

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Goldfish 2022

The 2022 edition contains 52 works of poetry, fiction and life-writing from a diverse range of voices. Goldfish offers a glimpse into their worlds.

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Goldfish 2021

The Goldfish bowl has felt very solitary for the past year. Our fish are having to keep to themselves. Luckily, it hasn’t stopped them from producing some wonderful poetry, fiction, life writing, and everything in between. This year’s anthology showcases the vigilance, as well as the skill, of the writers on the MA programme. Join us for a swim!

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Goldfish 2020

Goldfish: "Take a swim and get carried by a poem, dive in a novel excerpt or short story, tread through memoir! The journal showcases voices and perspectives at the vanguard of what 2020 literature has come to mean. We hope you enjoy the craft, and risks, that our Fish are making."

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Goldfish 2019

Goldfish is an exposition of creative work produced by the diverse range of voices on the MA programme. It is an opportunity to discover new writers experimenting and challenging themselves across poetry, short stories, life writing and the novel.

This year’s anthology delves into the emotional entanglements of girlhood, marriage, modern connection and grief. Follow the great whales on their annual migration from Baja to the Arctic. Travel back to the siege of Sarajevo. See the inner worlds of those whose stories have yet to be told. We hope you enjoy it. Photo by zhengtao tang on Unsplash

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Goldfish celebrates a thriving community of writers and expresses the diverse range of voices on the MA programme. It includes poetry, short stories, life writing, and novel extracts. It is an opportunity to discover new writers as they experiment and challenge themselves throughout the process of the MA. 

We hope that you enjoy journeying through this year’s anthology, and getting to know the characters, worlds and times presented by the students of 2018

Image: Stephen Beatty. ‘Spawning migration by goldfish… a globally invasive species,’ Journal of Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Australia.

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Goldfish 2017

The annual anthology of writing by Masters students in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Goldfish celebrates a thriving community of writers and expresses the diverse range of voices on the MA programme. It includes poetry, short stories, life writing, and extracts from novels. It is an opportunity to discover new writers as they experiment and challenge themselves. Together we travel to war zones and imagined worlds, interrogate versions of the past, and speculate on possible futures. We hope that you enjoy it.

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Goldfish 2016

The 2016 collection includes poems, short stories, life writing, and novel excerpts that together circle the globe from London to New York, Singapore to small-town Wisconsin. They are stories in which we fall in love, then fall out of it again. Together we, alongside their protagonists, face the uncertainties of a partner’s death, the awkwardness of a first date not showing up to the pub. We learn we grow. Things, rarely, turn out as simple as they once appeared to be. 

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Goldfish 2015

From comedy to tragedy; from speculative fiction to memoir; from poetry to prose; there is something here for everyone. We hope you enjoy reading this collection of work by the future’s best authors!

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