Since 1992, The Mays has published an annual selection of the best and most exciting new writing and artwork from students at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
Three friends at Cambridge, Peter Ho Davies, Adrian Woolfson and Ron Dimant, came together to create The Mays in 1992. Until 2003, the publication was split into two separate anthologies (for prose and poetry), after which point it became a single anthology.
Based at the University of Cambridge, the anthology is still edited by students and published by Varsity Publications Ltd to this day .