Cre­ative Writ­ing Night

MISHAWAKA—On Fri­day, April 8, The Cross­ings hosted a cre­ative writ­ing and read­ing night at Suf­fi­cient Grounds. All stu­dents were in­vited to at­tend and the only re­quire­ment for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the read­ing was to bring a piece of your own work to read aloud.

Gabrielle Swartzen­tru­ber, as­so­ci­ate ed­i­tor of The Cross­ings, as­sisted with plan­ning the event.

“This is the first time we have re­vived this since COVID,” Swartzen­tru­ber said. “It has been about three years since we last did one of these, so we weren’t ex­pect­ing a huge turnout.”

Due to the COVID-19 pan­demic, a lot of events around cam­pus have not oc­curred nor­mally, but as Swartzen­tru­ber said, they were hop­ing to bring out dif­fer­ent writ­ers from around cam­pus to share their cre­ative works with one an­other. They did not have to write these dur­ing col­lege, but they wanted an event where stu­dents could share their work.

“We are try­ing to make this a yearly thing,” Swartzen­tru­ber said. “We want to cre­ate a chill, lowkey, and re­laxed at­mos­phere. Hope­fully, in the fol­low­ing years we can fix any bugs.”