Writers Unite to Express Creativity
For students wanting to enhance their use of language and expand their creativity, the Creative Writing Club at PVCC, also known as Writers Unite, is an opportunity. Writers Unite is where authors or students who enjoy writing come together and share their writing. Normally the members meet and have a few minutes of writing time, then get the chance to read and critique each other’s work.
“The Creative Writing Club offers PVCC students a place to exercise their creativity and collaborate and converse with their fellow writers. We share and discuss original pieces, respond to prompts during “free write” time, host contests and events, and participate in editing, compiling, and formatting the annual literary magazine,” said Ella Chin, one of the presidents of the club.
She and Wyatt Ernst are co- presidents who work together to run meetings with the faculty adviser of Writers Unite and Professor of English Jennifer Koster. They also edit and publish the literary magazine The Fall Line, which compiles student pieces of writing and art. Anyone can submit their work to the magazine for the chance to be published in it.
Students can submit a maximum of ten pages of writing, either fiction or
nonfiction, for review. The pieces are chosen on March 31, and the magazine is published by April 30. Dates may vary. The Writers Unite page under the section of clubs on the PVCC website has all the information and guidelines on how to submit a literary work to the magazine.
“One of the club’s big goals is to promote writing and reading at PVCC, and we hope that we can also encourage people to express their creativity and to use the power of language to share their thoughts and things that are important to them,” Chin said.
