Selwyn is relaunching its College magazine, Kiwi, after a break of nearly a decade.

It is being relaunched under the editorship of two third-year students, Emily Heatherington and Hugh McDowell.

Having previously been the University’s longest running student magazine, Kiwi fizzled out in the mid-2010s, with the last known edition being published in 2016.

With its name likely a reference to George Augustus Selwyn, the college’s namesake and first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand, the magazine was first published in 1982 and quickly established itself at the heart of College life.

With physical editions being published three times a term, the magazine was the primary source of College news long before confessions pages were in existence.

According to Emily, the magazine used to would feature long-form articles, a regular ‘Auntie Kiwi’ section, contributions from Gus (the College cat), digs at the Bursar, and, at one point, parodic renditions of classic poetry that were created by ‘cornering some terrified English students’”.

Student-drawn cartoons would also regularly appear, as well as coverage of college politics, including mentions of former JCR presidents Wes Streeting (now health secretary) and Ben Gliniecki (now general secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party).

Additionally, special editions would be published throughout the year, including a Freshers’ guide in the first week of Michaelmas, a leavers’ guide in Easter, and occasional alumni editions, which would see former writers reunite to reminisce and, often, mock each other.

After a conversation with an alum sparked Hugh and Emily’s interest in the magazine, they hope to publish the revived Kiwi’s first edition later in Lent, and say they hope to recapture the original’s “anti-establishment tone”. This reportedly saw it repeatedly described as “scurrilous” by both fellows and former students.

A post on the College’s confession page calling for submissions described the magazine as “Sometimes satirical, sometimes serious, always the greatest piece of journalistic work produced by Selwyn students”.

Contributors will once again be drawn from the whole student body, and although the first edition is to be published online, the duo hope to later be able to return to print editions.

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