SEQUIM — A wide-ranging look at local writers’ work comes this week as the Rainshadow Coffee Roasting Co., 157 W. Cedar St., hosts another free Fourth Friday Reading.
Bill Chisham, whose books include The Road North; Janet Johnson, author of The Daughter I Lost and Found; and Graham Hutchins, whose poetry-photography collection is Some Words for All Seasons, will take part in the reading at 6 p.m. Friday.
Lovers of literature are welcome to arrive early to choose seats and order beverages.
After the featured readers comes the open-mic section, when anyone, be they poetry or prose writers or both, can read for up to five minutes.
For guidelines, email Fourth Friday Reading series organizer Ruth Marcus at rmarcus@olypen.com.
The three who will start Friday’s reading include novelists, poets and nonfiction writers:
■ Chisham, author of three books, is working on a play about a couple in the Garden of Eden as well as on short essays about life in the slower lane.
■ Johnson’s published works include her novel The Adventures of Harry and Claire: A Trilogy; as well as poetry in The Denver Post and in Seabury In Memoriam, A Bicentennial Anthology of Poetry, (1784-1984).
On Friday she’ll read from “Snowstorm,” Part III of The Adventures of Harry and Claire.
■ Hutchins, a teacher of philosophy, literature, humanities and religious studies at colleges across the Northwest, explores both the natural and liturgical year in his Some Words for All Seasons.
