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Melissa Silva

Features Editor at The King's Tab

Melissa Silva
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Location
London
Education
Kings College London
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Kings College London, guides, student lifestyle and culture, Northern culture, modern literature, fashion, music, film and art history.

  • Melissa Silva is currently Features Editor at The King's Tab, where she works with the teams's writers on style guides, top tips and opinion pieces. She pitches ideas for weekly feature articles, editing numerous pieces and occasionally writing some
  • Melissa prides herself in her think pieces, focusing on the inconveniences that students encounter of their day to day through a satirical lens
  • She is an enthusiast of popular culture, deeply engrossed in the latest film, music and celebrity trends

Experience

Melissa Silva joined The Kings Tab as a writer in 2022 during her first year of university focusing on student culture, eventually working her way up to Features Editor in 2023.

Education

Melissa is in her second year at Kings College London, where she is completing her BA in English Literature taking multiple modules mainly concerned with American, Gothic and religious literature in preparation for her dissertation next year.

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Posts

Applications are now open for The King’s Tab 2025/26 editorial team

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The King’s Tab hands over the baton to a brand new team of editors. Are you up for the challenge?

Vaping to be allowed in King’s College London lectures to ‘improve concentration’

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A leaked email says ‘vaping permits’ will soon be introduced for select students

Ready to Live Forever? KMT Presents FAME!

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King’s Musical Theatre Society presents their Spring MainStage show FAME!

Here’s a survival guide to writing 3,000 words in 48 hours as a student at King’s

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Time to wipe the crumbs off your leaver’s hoodie and get that degree you cried and begged for during your A-Levels

GKT Musical Theatre members reveal all in an exclusive interview about their latest show

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GKT start the new semester off with a BANG!

From Dolly Parton to a six foot rabbit: KMT Soc spill all about their latest musical

& | Theatre

The King’s Tab interviews the cast and crew of KMT society’s winter main stage show, 9 to 5

King’s student accused of sending ‘homophobic’ messages in cheerleading group chat

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Messages reading ‘b***y b*ys’ and ‘rainbow warriors’ were sent in KCL Lions’ unofficial WhatsApp group

Bollywood star at King’s: Ibrahim Ali Khan seen shooting for latest film on Strand campus

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Bollywood superstar Ibrahim Ali Khan was spotted shooting for upcoming film ‘Diler’

A potential student fee increase? King’s College London’s VC agrees ‘now is the moment’

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‘We cannot continue to do more with less’

These are the five most annoying people you’ll meet at King’s before you graduate

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If you’ve come across any of these, you may be eligible for reparations

This is every type of person you will find in King’s uni halls: Rated

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Warning: The bin rotas might hit a little too close to home