“Writing is something that stretches across the curriculum and outside of the school,” Amy Pine, library media specialist and published author, said. “[Writer’s day] gives students who have never had a safe place to share their work, a place to share it and maybe be in that spotlight for the first time.”

Pine is organizing the second annual writer’s day in hopes of getting the students excited about writing and giving them the opportunity to share their own work. Faculty also have the opportunity to share their work.

“Students who present, and faculty as well, can present fiction, an excerpt from something that they have written or are writing, non-fiction, a short story, part of a novel, or poetry. It can really be anything that you have written as long as it’s original,” Pine said.

Pine said she felt last year’s writer’s day was a success, but she hopes that this year will be even better and continue in the future.

“This is the second year we have done a writer’s day,” Pine said. “This year, I asked for teacher feedback as to when they would like for me to schedule it because I’m hoping to have more classes come to it. I’m hoping that the more we can get teachers to fit this into the curriculum, the more of a chance there is that we can do this more in the future.”

Pine believes that by exposing students to different forms of writing, they will realize that writing goes past the classroom.

“It shows students that writing can take all different formats outside of what they do in the classroom,” Pine said. “I have a performance poet coming in and I have professional published authors to coming in to show them that writing goes way past what you do in school.”

Although the writers have their own intent with their work, the readers might get something totally different out of it. According to Pine, that’s sort of the beauty of it.