Journal Entry #9

February 18, 2008

Dear Prospective Students,

Believe it or not, I am writing this to you from the semester's very first meeting of The Cream Filling!

Yes, indeed! We have started the year off on a high note and have morphed what was once just a literary magazine into a writing club!

Being one of three co-presidents, I decided it was time we take our lovely literary endeavor to the next level. With one of my fellow co-presidents studying abroad in London and the other busy with an internship and prior commitments, I collaborated with some of our most interested members to create what we have here tonight.

We began the meeting by introducing each other, infusing the meeting with humor and a light-hearted nature that led to our premise. We plan to hold meetings about every other week, at which time we come together to get creative. We start each session with some sort of prompt. Whether it's a song, a picture, or words, we strive to provide inspiration that will get everyone's mind going. Then, for about twenty minutes, we write or draw anything we please, whether it was prompt-inspired or not. Afterward, we open the floor up to sharing on a volunteer basis.

Our goal is to get people thinking and creating in order to hopefully gain submissions for publication. Members are invited to submit their work right then and there, or are welcome to take what they've been doing home and submit it at a later date.

We rarely get submissions when we only send out e-mail reminders, so through this method, we hope more people will become aware and interested enough that we will have a wealth of works to choose from when it comes time to publish.

If you would like to check out last year's copies of The Cream Filling in PDF format, check out this link: http://www.fairfield.edu/pub_creamfilling.html

Talk to you soon!

love, anna.