the 21st portfolio

musings of creatives and literary critics of the 21st century.

About Us

Our site’s content is free and written by student volunteers. If you like what we write, please consider supporting our work with a donation. Donations will go to the site owner and be put towards site costs, or you can also donate to our authors – just include their name in your donation.

Quick-fire round

Who owns this site?

I’m Ben Targett (“btarg”), the student who owns this site. I hope you like it 🙂

You can contact me using the form below.

Who writes the content for this site?

English Literature students from Staffordshire University.

What kind of content should I expect to see here?

Almost anything literature-adjacent and high-effort! Pieces of creative writing such as poetry, reviews and mini-essays, etc. are often posted here.

Information for authors

How can I become an author for this blog?

The blog uses an email-based invite system to manage user accounts. If you are studying English Literature (and/or Creative Writing) at a University level, then you can contact someone with the ability to invite you or contact the site admin using the form below, preferably with a portfolio of some kind to prove your talent for writing. Whilst this blog is intended primarily for students, lecturers can become authors too! (Though, this is just a personal goal of mine, and quite frankly, a bit of a stretch.)

What rules do authors need to follow?

The rules are available on this page.

Should posts be formal or informal?

Posts can be written however you want! Posts may be viewed by lecturers, however, and will be moderated by site admins, so the usual rules for online etiquette and respectful behaviour apply here – see the rules for authors.

How do I turn a post into a PDF?

Microsoft Edge, Brave and Firefox all have some form of “Reader Mode” (it’s called “Immersive Reader” in Edge). Using this mode, open the “Print” menu in your browser to save the page to a PDF file. Chrome’s reading mode does not style the page correctly for printing as of May 2023.

What citation style should I use when writing a post?

Harvard. RefWorks can help you with this.

Contact

The contact form has been removed due to a high volume of spam.