Baldwin City ? Five Baker University students and a Baker alumna will read from their original creative nonfiction works Thursday in the first of four events planned for the Baker Sesquicentennial Reading Series.

The event is at 7:30 p.m. at McKibbin Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Corie Dugas, a 2004 Baker graduate and librarian at Webster University in St. Louis, will be the opening reader for the series, sponsored by Baker’s language and literature department. She writes for St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles magazine.

Students participating in the first series event will be Brianna Lichtenauer, Keith Gaboury, Haley Gilbert, Kurtis King and Ashley Sims.

In March, Lichtenauer’s essay, “The Absence of Words,” placed second in creative nonfiction at the Sigma Tau Delta International Conference in Pittsburgh. Gilbert and King participated earlier this year at the National Literature Conference in Ogden, Utah.

The remaining series schedule:

Oct. 18: Laura Moriarty, novelist, 7:30 p.m., Owens Audio-Visual Room

Feb. 28: Donald Levering, poet, 7 p.m., Owens Audio-Visual Room

April 8: BU Poetry, 7:30 p.m., location to be announced.