Erika Chupp

In the Beginning Erika Chupp

Enclosed in this book you will find the culmination of a year of teaching. The pieces inside were written by students from Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL in response to the prompt, beginnings. We wanted our book to represent the beginning of Original: Creative Writing Club and be a way of immortalizing the works of the original members. It is our dearest hope that Original continues to flourish as the years go on and our mission statement: "To encourage writers to find the stories only they can tell, to create a safe space for them to share their stories and receive feedback from other writers, and to explore the best way to tell those stories in order to impact their potential audience" carries on with it.