LEWISTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh will teach one of two creative writing courses offered at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College in the spring semester. Walsh and LAC writing center director, Patricia Hager will collaborate on “Telling Stories That Matter: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling and Creative Writing,” a sampling of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and blogging.

The digital storytelling class will be the first of its kind taught at the USM LAC campus with two veteran journalists. Pat Hager was a freelance newspaper journalist in Philadelphia and New Jersey for 15 years and has been teaching writing at the college level for more than 30 years.

Walsh has worked for newspapers and magazines in Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Ireland. Her book, “Sammy in the Sky,” is illustrated by painter Jamie Wyeth; it was inspired by her family’s first dog, Sam, a loyal and loving hound who died in 2004. She is also the author of “August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm,” an adult biography and memoir. Walsh lives in Maine with her family and their coonhound Jack, a rescue dog from Tennessee.

The class begins Wednesday, Jan. 18, and meets from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. It ends the week of May 11; sign up deadline is Jan. 18. It is catalogued in the USM LAC course list as 10139 HUM 299.

For more information visit www.usm.maine.edu/lac/course-list or contact Dan Philbrick, director of marketing at [email protected] or USM Lewiston/Auburn College at 753-6500.