Epigram (newspaper)

By Izzy Geddes, Epigreen Columnist Have you ever truly considered how your food reaches your table? While there is a growing awareness, do we fully understand the extent of exploitation required to get it there? The hidden operations of the food industry establish a need for comprehensive education, hard implementation of sustainable scale, and a revision of individual mindsets.

By Emily MacLean, Second Year, English Reading habits in the United Kingdom are at their lowest ever recorded rate. The National Year of Reading 2026, run by the National Literacy Trust and the Department for Education, aims to reconnect us with reading and engage us in broader dialogues about why reading enjoyment declines with age. As students, whose main barrier is admittedly ourselves, that statistic is both sobering and quietly discreetly empowering.

By Sophie Stradling, Head of Photography and Benjamin Ladner, First Year, Geography The first band I got to see at Bristol’s Dot2Dot was self-titled ‘loud band’ Gaws who captured The Lanes venue with a set that felt both familiar and yet ever-changing. Playing to a crowded room at 2:30, they managed to mesmerise their audience, leading everyone to forget it was mid-afternoon with the sun bearing down outside.

By Alex Boersma, Literature Columnist 25/26 Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, author, playwright and editor. In honour of pride month and fresh off her recent international book tour for Maryville, we discussed her journey from university to building a successful career in the arts and celebrating her queerness.

By Charles Hubbard, Second Year Theatre and Performance Studies Paced like a speeding bullet and made with style to spare, Lucy Marshall’s exceptionally brash and impressively labyrinthine play is perhaps most interesting when viewed as a violently satirical and gleefully subversive skewering of late-stage capitalism and the ghoulish centrist commodification of queer culture.

By Anna Dodd, Features Editor and Lenny Osler, News Reporter The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Bonn is set to bring together governments, researchers, NGOs, and other stakeholders to advance negotiations on climate policy ahead of COP31.

By Anna Dodd, Features Editor Cherish the Orange are back on a Bristol stage once again with their new play Foul is Fair, a brassy and bold exploration of female friendship in keeping with the themes of their previous works, Fruitcake and Kick Off. Set the night before an English GCSE exam, writers and directors Dulcie and Tildy return to their schooldays with a play centred around dynamics of an all-girls school, as pupils in Year 11 navigate the joys and perils of being a teenage girl.

By Katie Asha, Third Year, English Ruby Roberts' music is a cocktail of melancholic dance sounds. The giddy nostalgia of Wolf Alice, theatricality of Kate Bush, and femininity of Lana Del Rey are all top-middle and base notes within her work – along with something that is uniquely hers.

In a time where the job market for graduates is the worst it's ever been, Bristol based Rising Arts Agency have placed youths at the centre by announcing their new co-directors: Ellayah May Woodward Lindsey and Mitoshka Alkova. The appointment on June 17th marked the creative agency's ten year anniversary. By Alex Boersma, Literature Columnist 25/26 Rising Arts Agency is a Bristol based social enterprise run by young creatives.

By Maya Cavale, Second Year, Philosophy Now we’ve reached the end of another year, I’m sure most of us can look back on our past ‘September-selves’ and appreciate how much we’ve changed. It seems our elders may actually have a point when they say (for the hundredth time…) that these years are vital for shaping our sense of self. Uni is one of the only places I’ve felt that most of my interactions and experiences have pushed me to strengthen my interests and views.