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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FROM ASHES TO ASHES<br />
but they were too caught up in material things. Is this the outlook<br />
of the world I came from? The little care for nature and the well<br />
being of the people that inhabit it. The moral depravity of those<br />
that have the power, and what of the power. The invisible line that<br />
separates the weak from the strong, if it was broken this would not<br />
have happened. The greed of the world caused it to take drastic<br />
measures; nature is the true all-powerful being. No longer could the<br />
man take the neglect of those past and the insanity of those future.<br />
This is what the man thought to himself. As the footsteps of his<br />
pursuers grew closer he knew what he must do.<br />
As the man tumbled into the darkness he once again asked himself<br />
this question,<br />
“<strong>Where</strong> am I?”<br />
Savvas Matiatos is a senior at <strong>Sitka</strong> High School.<br />
12 <strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?
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