The Literary and Drama Club was inaugurated on the 25^th of June 2018 in the Conference Hall of the College.

Students of the English Department, St. Anthony's College, Shillong.

• The club encourages writing skills activities to boost the students' ability to express in a wider vocabulary. Writing skill-sets such as clarity, focus, grammar, punctuation, spelling, engagement, proof-reading are the primary objectives which this programme focuses on.
• Keeping in mind the reticence and pressure that some the students of the earlier semesters may feel and the struggle they may face in approaching work prescribed in the syllabus, the programme encourages students to read and analyse books by holding discussions and debates. Students are encouraged to give their worldview of the text, their analysis of the characters, their critique of the plot.
• In holding such discussions, the moderator communicates with each student at their pace by making it a dialogue thereby engaging with the student at their individual comfort level. Thus the students are taught to communicate their thought across with confidence.
• The programme also encourages students to write creatively by allowing them to explore their creative abilities in the form of poetry writing and other creative narratives.
• The programme aims to hold literary exhibitions whereby students are encouraged to be informed by researching on various literary figures and subjects. Students are encouraged to explore their creative skills by being engaged with various art-work for the exhibition such as poster-making, crafts, figurines and so on.

• To mark the inauguration of the Literary and Drama Club, a drama workshop was organized. The resource person was Lapdiang Syiem, a performing artist trained in NSD, New Delhi and The Comedia School, Copenhagen.
• The Literary Club organised a Poetry Reading Session entitled "Rhymes and Reasons" on 18^th July 2019. The resource person was Prof. Esther Syiem, Department of English, NEHU. Prof. Esther Syiem, Department of English, NEHU, read some of her poems to the audience. Two Faculty member of the Department of English, St. Anthony's College namely Dr. Amanda Tongper and Miss Anita Pde read their poems too. Few students from the department also read their poems. They were: Miss Nelvy Gracia Majaw, Miss Richa Goswami, Mr. Indemnity Lamare, Miss Limayala Changkilari, Miss Agaratta Dutta Roy, Miss Moni Nganrangbam and Mr. Benjamin Pryngap. The programme was attended by the students of the 1^st, 3^rd and 5^th semester of the department.
• The Drama club staged a play "Oh Prufrock!" on the 5^th of November 2019 based on T.S.Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the College Auditorium. The play was written and directed by the Drama Club, Department of English.