Brookings, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus invites the community to join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 pm for: Imaginative Creative Writing.
This is a free program sponsored by the Friends of Curry Campus and will be held in the Community Room on Southwestern’s Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway (off Highway 101), Brookings. Bring a friend and a brown bag lunch.
Gold Beach Residents: Coral will also be sharing her presentation at the GOLD BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY on SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Coral Anderson will teach Creative Writing and Story Worlds at the Curry Campus this spring. Coral will engage in a short program with the Friends of Curry Campus so that we can meet her and sample a bit of her teaching. The first part of the full-term class includes reading and analysis of published works such as scenes, dialogue, themes, and structure. The second part of the class involves writing exercises both at home and in class.
Coral describes her teaching experiences saying, “I have profoundly enjoyed teaching writing in both college and high school contexts. Homeschooling my own high school aged children has granted me a broader scope of appreciation for curriculum that can foster cross-curricular excellence while preparing them for collegiate studies and career paths beyond college. I believe that students of all ages can unlock the door to eloquent self-expression in whatever subsequent field of inquiry they undertake. Literature and writing are doorways for students into greater expression of their own thoughts and interests. Ideally, those doorways will open ever-widening and expanding conversations within the larger community for robust engagement within all the arenas – personal or civic – that matter most.”
Over the course of two decades, Coral has taught Freshman Composition & Rhetoric in a private college; served as a K-12 substitute teacher; engaged 9-12th graders in critical thinking about literature in a private Catholic high school; team-led a Waldorf Kindergarten built entirely outdoors; served as an assistant director of one metropolitan preschool and then – a decade later – spent three years tromping through nature with children in a yoga-based outdoor preschool on California’s Central Coast. In 2005, she pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. “Stories… they allow us to live outside of ourselves for a little while and yet, somehow, find more of ourselves in the process… As an only child, books were my friends whom I loved and interacted with all through my growing up years. In writing, you can take a journey to explore the things that intrigue you… without money, and with the luxury of time and imagination,” shared Coral.
Stay tuned for upcoming talks in the Friends of Curry Speaker Series. Spring term lectures will feature animals that conservationists are trying to save. Watch for more information about these lectures in the College News publication coming to you soon in your mailbox. For more information contact the Curry Campus at 541-813-1667.
