Penns Valley provides a diverse community with talents of all sorts, and the Asylum Club calls on people to let their talents shine! Asylum is a club that produces yearly literary journals featuring poems, essays, song lyrics, visual arts, and much more. This is all in the spirit of recognizing the grand potential of anybody with hidden talents in the arts!

Past Asylum journals have featured the works of many of our school’s prestigious artists, such as Laney Aston, Peter O’Donald, Alliah Crow, and NightStandArt, who visually recreate their interests and traits with captivating color. Some profound writers have also put their works in the journal: Alexis Long, Ashlynn McClenahan, and others who chose to remain anonymous. The poems, stories, and essays featured depict cathartic comprehensions of truth, emotion and the lack thereof, and mental health. If you want to make your talent known through writing, art, and photos, wait for the email to submit your works for Asylum, and you may get featured in the annual literary journal at the end of the year.

The first meeting of the Asylum Club will be this Friday, October 11th. Momenzadeh proclaims, “We’ll talk shop, get some officers in there, and work out if we want to apply for the grant again like last year. Come prepared to chat.” If you want to join and assist in organizing the journal, managing their finances, or seeing what our community has to offer to everyone, contact Ms. Momenzadeh for an application; this club does not provide sign-ups. The Asylum Club anticipates recruiting more members to help spread people’s expression through what they make!