If you are looking to further your creativity, the Lantern Club is definitely for you. The Lantern Club, run by English Teacher Scott Summers, is a club here at WHHS where students meet to share their drawings, photography, poetry, and short fiction.

The club recently came up with an idea to publish more issues, rather than their usual one publication at the end of the year. This idea came from Tori Andersen, editor.

Andersen, a junior of the club, got the idea to publish more issues from her English teacher, who told her that it would be more productive if people had more to look forward to. She brought this idea to Summers, and he thought it was great.

Members love the club, especially since it gives artists a positive way to display their work. Club members use the time at their meetings to release their creativity and improve their work. The main goal of the club is simply to improve themselves and make their work better, according to Andersen

“My favorite part of the club is the atmosphere, because everybody shares everything and we don’t hold our creative selves back from some constructive criticism and sharing our works,” said Andersen.

Students are free to express themselves through art or literature in the Lantern Club. There is a wide variety of submissions, with many different genres that students write or draw about, she adds.

“I personally enjoy writing about dystopian stories that revolve around survival in an apocalyptic environment. If you think about The Fifth Wave, or Monument Fourteen, that’s basically the genre I enjoy writing about,” says Andersen.