WONDERER JOURNAL

THE QUEEN MARY UNDERGRADUATE LITERARY JOURNAL

Wonderer Journal's Issue 01 is officially out! Access it in 'issues'

Our vision:

Whether driven by curiosity or thrilled by the intellectual journey, the wonderer is a figure of inquiry, always lost and found in search of something. At the heart of the wonderer’s quest, we believe, lies a genuine fascination with ideas. Motivated by a spirit of impartiality, wonderers doubt, argue, construct, deconstruct, and meander the alleyways of thought looking for more questions. They are, in short, epitomes of the freedom of thought.

Wonderer Journal was born out of our support for undergraduate students who identify themselves with these principles. Although we do not gather in Bloomsbury or at the Cabaret Voltaire, we encourage students to use this platform as a means to share their critical views on any literary work that complies with the journal’s scope.

The associations with the wanderer are particularly relevant to our project for, in the end, it is not the Philosophers’ Stone that the wonderer seeks, but the journey itself.

‘The path is the Stone.’

(Ioana Radulescu, Founding Editor-in-Chief)

Wonderer was envisioned by students at Queen Mary University of London who wanted to have their work not just seen and graded, but also published. We wanted to have the opportunity to learn the craft of academic writing by receiving extensive feedback on our papers. Thus, ‘Wonderer: The Queen Mary Literary Journal’ was born. This is why we wanted to launch a completely original, fresh platform, in order to show the truly unique work Queen Mary students are able to generate.

Together, with postgraduates and postdoctoral members of the university, we formed a board that will ensure the alignment of the Wonderer Journal with other first-rate undergraduate journals. We hope that this experience will allow undergraduates to enhance their analytical skills and writing techniques.

We are eager to receive work from outside the university; broadening our horizons beyond the frontiers of our own country will greatly enrich the journal's contents. The opportunity to review international papers is something that we value for the formation of our literary community!

We will wonder into greater things.

(Chloe Lim, Founding Chairperson)