PORT ANGELES — A special Foothills Writers Series event Tuesday will showcase a variety of work by the students in Peninsula College’s spring-quarter creative writing class.
In an hourlong reading to start at 12:35 p.m., the writers will travel from poetry and short stories to creative nonfiction and selections from novels. The venue is the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Admission is free to the public.
“From one classroom comes 35 very different voices,” said Janet Lucas, their professor.
She notes, for example, that several of the students are planning on becoming science majors but want to expand their creative sides.
“Many are gifted wordsmiths,” she said, “who are looking for a reason to have to write the story or poem that’s been waiting to come out.”
All quarter, the writers have been workshopping their projects, meeting in critique groups, reading one another’s work and offering support.
“Students prompt each other to find new ideas,” Lucas said, “and are inspired by each other’s work . . . Writing has been therapeutic for some,” such as the students who use it to work through traumatic experiences, be they childhood abuse, the murder of a friend, addiction or war.
Lucas added that many of these writers have, through the creation of characters, confronted parts of themselves they didn’t know existed.
