Meet The Team (Part 1)

Before you get your claws into our exciting new magazine, you will probably want to meet the brains behind the business: the hard-working quartet of girls responsible for Student Speak!

Below are short bios of two members of our publication (part two is yet to come). In the mean time, get reading and get to know us a little bit more...

Editor: Hannah Montgomery

Interests: “I’m Hannah, and my passions are reading and writing – bit of a literary geek, you could say! I enjoy crime novels, particularly those by Karen Rose, my favourite novelist of that genre. My collection is constantly growing because being a bookworm means you can’t help but visit a bookstore every once in a while!”

Aspirations: “My main priority is to get lots of journalistic work experience under my belt and learn from some respected media professionals. The central aim is to become an established journalist for a woman's magazine, interviewing people and writing up features which will be read by a wide audience.”

Aims for Student Speak: “I want to bring some vibrancy to student magazines and make them cool, because at the moment there aren’t very many about, and I think that’s a shame! Bringing some excitement and entertainment to the students of Birmingham is what I want to do, by providing them with a funky and modern magazine just for them.”

Copywriter: Grace Montgomery

Interests: “I’m Grace. I have always been fond of writing and being creative, so naturally I thoroughly enjoy all aspects of journalism, from interviewing interesting people to researching and attending events.”

Aspirations: “My dream job would be as a magazine journalist. Possibly like the ones that you see on all the girly films, rushing around like a headless chicken, juggling a cup of coffee and a hundred tasks lined up to do! But it wouldn’t even need to be a particularly massive magazine- just a really great publication with fab content and a good readership. I would adore for my work to be published and read, enjoyed and appreciated by a large number of people. That is the dream.”

Aims for Student Speak: “For me, Student Speak should stand out from all other existing student publications; I want original articles and interesting stories, not the boring, conventional content you get in all the others. I want it to be youthful, colourful, vibrant, funky, a must-read for all university students! If it turned out to be a publication you actually want to read, one where you actually actively seek to get your mitts on the next issue, I would be extremely satisfied.”