Where Am I? Sitka Story Lab Student Anthology
The Island Institute's Sitka Story Lab program released this new book of Southeast Alaskan student writing in May 2016. Called Where Am I?: Stories of Strange Landscapes, Wrong Turns, and New Worlds, the anthology features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and zany creative experiments that convey the disorientation and the discovery that young people experience, from being in the wilderness to simply growing up. The young writers come from Sitka, Hoonah, Haines, Wrangell, and Skagway, and are as young as nine years old and as old as eighteen. "The writing ranges from fantastic and playful to emotionally moving and dark," said Story Lab Coordinator Sarah Swong. "I'm impressed at how creative and varied these writings are, and at how open students were to feedback and improving their work." The project offered students the chance to write a piece for publication and to hone their writing with an editor.
The Island Institute's Sitka Story Lab program released this new book of Southeast Alaskan student writing in May 2016.
Called Where Am I?: Stories of Strange Landscapes, Wrong Turns, and New Worlds, the anthology features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and zany creative experiments that convey the disorientation and the discovery that young people experience, from being in the wilderness to simply growing up. The young writers come from Sitka, Hoonah, Haines, Wrangell, and Skagway, and are as young as nine years old and as old as eighteen.
"The writing ranges from fantastic and playful to emotionally moving and dark," said Story Lab Coordinator Sarah Swong. "I'm impressed at how creative and varied these writings are, and at how open students were to feedback and improving their work."
The project offered students the chance to write a piece for publication and to hone their writing with an editor.
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DEBBIE YEARWOOD<br />
we waited until Lily had left the room to all fall off the bed at once.<br />
Scared the life out of his doped up head. Taught Lily a lesson about<br />
drugs too.<br />
JERRY: Sure Tommy was bad, but remember Seth? God those two<br />
got it o--<br />
THEA: [Covering her ears] I remember, don’t remind me.<br />
TED: I remember the positive test results. A few days later she<br />
came back and cried for hours. Still no baby so I guess she--<br />
THEA: [Again, but obviously more upset] I remember, don’t remind<br />
me.<br />
JERRY: I remember when she started coming home drunk all the<br />
time<br />
THEA: I remember the smokes. She’d start off each day with a<br />
new pack, and always come home with the last one around her lips.<br />
TED: I remember the knife...and the note.<br />
[All go silent for a long time.]<br />
JERRY: I remember her putting the knife away.<br />
THEA: I remember her taking us in the car with her on her way to<br />
therapy.<br />
TED: I remember her graduation...I admit, she looked beautiful.<br />
THEA: Her dark circles were gone.<br />
JERRY: Her smile was back.<br />
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