Ellipses magazine artfully celebrates the writing of current undergraduate students and alumni of the BA (Hons) English programme at the University of St Mark and St John.

Dr Hayden Gabriel, Programme Leader for English and Creative Writing said: "The name Ellipses stems from that technical meaning where those three dots indicate an omission of some kind: we'd love to include student pieces in their entirety, but as many are writing novels, that isn't possible, so we offer, instead, extracts from their work. Ellipses, too, because of those, perhaps less-known meanings: leaving something to be understood by the reader, and instances of resonance where inversions of language are made.

In addition to linguistic and literary critical analysis, students have the opportunity to study, explore and write in many forms: poetry, screenplay, stage-play (including the chance to see their work in production), news journalism, travel writing, blog writing and more, but our focus here is on the prose forms of fiction and non fiction."

You can read the latest editions of Ellipses here:

• Ellipses magazine Winter 2016
• Ellipses magazine Spring 2017