For all of you creative writers and aspiring photographers out there, there’s a new extracurricular activity at Wenatchee High School just for you: the all-new Ink Club aims to create a literary magazine to serve as a platform for WHS student and staff creativity.

Junior Analise Nelson started the club this year in hopes of publishing 300 copies of a 20-page glossy magazine by the end of the year.

“[The magazine] gives people the opportunity to share their work,” Nelson said. “That’s what it’s all about.”

Club adviser Mary Symonds is excited to see what submissions WHS will have to offer.

“This is a forum for the muse [inside of us] to descend and inspire those around,” Symonds said. “We do plenty of analysis in class, but we need a way to showcase the creativity that we have on campus.”

WHS students and staff can submit poems, short stories, photography, and things of that nature. The club meets on Fridays after school in room 259 for 15 to 30 minutes. The job of club members is to help edit submissions, put together the magazine, and publicize. So far, the club has met a total of six times and there are about 20 members.

The Ink Club will stop accepting submissions for the magazine on Feb. 28, 2014. The published copies will be given for free to all WHS English teachers, contributors and anyone else who is interested. The club is also considering an online version of the magazine.

“We only have a $500 grant to work with, so a website would be the best way to keep the stories updated,” Nelson said. “The grant is from the enrichment department, so since our club isn’t official and just started this year, we can’t do any fundraising, which upsets me. We can’t even sell ads.”

Despite the financial challenges, Symonds and Nelson are determined to publish the magazine and believe that it is important for creative student writers to get press.

“I like writing, and I think it’s important that people can share their ideas with others,” Nelson said.