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, FALL 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, October 07, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents Tim Kelly
Tim Kelly won the 1999 Field Poetry prize with his book, Stronger. Oberlin press writes of his third book, Extremities, “Kelly details the precise mechanics of human anatomy with exact, yet lyrical language. Images of the body—ligaments, arteries, joints, bones—wind their way through luminous memories, shedding new light on the human experience.” Kelly, a practicing physical therapist, is also the author of Articulation(1993). He lives and works in Olympia, Washington.

Friday, December 05, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents the Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors (Ashland, Oregon)
Foothills welcomes the return of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors (Ashland, Oregon) co-sponsored with Studium Generale. Don’t miss the wonderful show where two expert actors become a dozen—just as in the days of the Bard himself. Public performances at noon and 7 p.m.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 — Foothills Writers Series presents Open Mike.
Now it’s your turn to share. Bring a couple of poems or a short piece of prose to share. Sign-up is 10 minutes before the 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.