Babble

An online Creative Writing magazine for students in European Languages and Cultures.

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Babble is a Creative Writing magazine for students in European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

We’re an online magazine, a creative space for you to practise your target language(s) and receive useful feedback and guidance on your work, whether that’s prose, drama, poetry or reviews.

We want to showcase what you’re good at, grow our sense of community, and promote multilingualism.

Support and awards

Babble was launched in January 2018 with the support of alumni and friends of the University of Edinburgh through an Innovation Initiative Grant. It is now on its 12th issue. In 2023, Babble: The School Issue joined the family. This special supplement showcases content written by school-level learners with the support, guidance and knowledge of our students. 

In 2021, the Babble editorial committee was nominated for The Dean of Students Award for Contribution to Student Experience in the CAHSS Recognition Awards. In 2024, the team behind the second School Issue won a Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award for their "work to make language learning and education more accessible and engaging to young learners, and for contributing to reducing social inequalities."

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Babble is perhaps the finest symbol of our efforts to make DELC a welcoming, collaborative and encouraging community of linguists, whatever language they practise.

 

Who’s who in Babble, including the editorial committee for Issue 13 (Multilingualism).

Creative writing on the theme of 'Play'. Launch date: Tuesday 2 April 2024.

Creative writing on the theme of 'Stories in Photographs'. Launch date: Tuesday 28 November 2023.

Creative writing on the theme of 'colours'. Launch date: Wednesday 5 April 2023.

Creative writing on the theme of 'let their art speak'. Launch date: Tuesday 29 November 2022.

Creative writing on the theme of 'out of this world'. Launch date: Wednesday 30 March 2022.