Foothills Writers Series

The Foothills Writers Series presents international, national, regional, and local writers reading their own works. The free readings are held in the Peninsula College Little Theater on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the academic year.


FOOTHILLS WRITERS SERIES, Winter 2008
Readings are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, they take place at noon in the Little Theater on the main campus in Port Angeles. And, for more than thirty years now, the Foothills Writers Series has been bringing a fine slate of writers to the Peninsula to pique your interest and keep you reading and writing.

The Foothills Writers Series welcomes you to a 35th season of fine writing. Readings are at noon on the days noted below and are free and open to the public. Please join us.

Readings, free and open to the public, are held at noon in the Little Theater. To be added to a monthly e-mail mailing about the college's arts events, please email Tina Herschelman.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents Writer In Residence Jacqui Banaszynski
Eighth annual Writer in Residence, journalist Jacqui Banaszynski, reads from her work covering the AIDS epidemic. Her 1988 feature story, "AIDS in the Heartland" won the Pulitzer Prize.
“If there is a common thread to the stories I hold most dear, it is that they reveal more about our sameness than our differences as human beings,” says Jacqui Banaszynski, this year’s Peninsula College Writer-in-Residence.
Banaszynski, who has worked for more than 30 years as a reporter and editor, holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism and is an Editing Fellow at The Poynter Institute. She spent 20 of her years in journalism as a beat and enterprise reporter, then worked as a projects editor at newspapers in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
It was during her tenure at the St. Paul Pioneer Press that she wrote her 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning feature series, “AIDS in the Heartland,” which provided an intimate look at the life and death of a gay farm couple.

Thursday, May 22, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents Ken Waldman
Ken Waldman combines original poetry with old-time Appalachian fiddling for a performance uniquely his own. His first three books of poems are set in Alaska. Expect poems of place, both geographical and cultural, and plenty of fiddle tunes.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents our annual Tidepools reading
Our annual Tidepools reading will celebrate the 2008 magazine and feature its writers. Join advisor Janet Lucas and her production team for a uniquely Peninsula reading.

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Alice Derry, Carmen Germain, and Kate Reavey, directors of the Series, teach in the English Division at the college and are active writers themselves. Suggestions for readers and all comments about the Series should be directed to them. The directors are grateful for the financial and audience support given by the English Division and by the Mountain Writers Series of Portland, Oregon.

If you wish to be added to the Foothills Writers Series mailing list, please call 417-6371 and leave your name and address.

This program has vigorously observed principles of equal opportunities, not discriminating on the basis of color, national origin, sex, or handicap. If you or someone you know might be interested in reading, please contact the co-directors. We encourage unestablished writers—of prose as well as of poetry—to apply.

We do not censor our readers in any way, and audience members may be offended by a reader’s language. Nevertheless, we feel this freedom of expression is necessary.

Foothills celebrates and welcomes the inception of its sister series The Waterfront Writers Union from the Peninsula College Extension Site in Port Townsend, organized by Michael O'Conner and Wes Cecil. Readings will be the second Friday of each month at 7 p.m. at the extension site, 181 Quincy Street, in Port Townsend. Tom Jay will inaugurate the series in February, and Alice Derry will read in March. We'll carry news of those readings on this page each quarter.

Tidepools 2003 winners will be announced by February 28, 2003. Contact Bruce Hattendorf, magazine advisor, 417-6243, for further information. Applications are available at the Peninsula College Library/Media Center.