I am a first-year student of history with a real passion for creative writing and helping others create worlds with words. (Yes, my photo does look like a particularly miserable mugshot.)
Currently, this society is very small, and I think that is a shame. Publishing is much more than writing stories and articles, and putting them in an anthology. Of course, that is a large part of it, but it also involves speaking skills, where you must pitch your idea for a story or article to those who would publish it, which in turn requires confidence in yourself and your idea, and being able to formulate an idea that is compelling, unique, or important (perhaps all three) in the first place. For the ones who wish to be the publishers, rather than the published, it required critical analysis, to be able to determine what would work best for the publication that you are creating, being able to talk to people and know that sometimes, you will have to let them down. It requires a certain character to be able to do this, as well as the ability to be able to organise yourself and the infomation before you, and formulate this into a coherant piece that is ready to be published.
Though that is only two example sof the kind of skills required in the world of publishing, if I were to be elected to president, I would aim to try to teach people these skills in order to prepare them for using them in the 'real world' of publishing. All of us have a passion for writing stories, poetry, writing articles that help people and a myriad of other things, so I would like to try to steer the society towards helping people achieve those goals with greater sucess.
I have a couple of ideas where we could start to do this, from holding workshops to help people develop these skills, to peer-assessing each other's work to help them learn how to improve their writing skills, as well as learning yourself through that analysis what is effective and what is not. Another thing which I would like to try to make happen, but don't want to promise, is getting people who's proffesion is involved in the publishing world to come in and speak in order to provide a real-world insight.
As a final comment, the main ambitious overarching goal would be to expand the society, in terms of numbers and the things that we do. I understand the passion you have for writing and publishing, about using it as a creative outlet, and I would like to help some people turn that passion into something tangible, where they can at the very least use some of the skills that have been developed.
Thank you for reading this. I think possibly I dragged it out for a little too long.