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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MY ADDICTION<br />
save me from Lyric.<br />
LINK<br />
Or help me defeat the Majora.<br />
ROSE<br />
I’m sorry, everyone! I need to wait another twenty hours before I<br />
can!<br />
LINK<br />
Why not, Rose?<br />
ROSE<br />
I’m trying to prove to Mom I’m not addicted to video games!<br />
AMY ROSE<br />
Is that really a bad thing?<br />
FOXY FNAF1<br />
Ye see, lassie? Ye could be guzzling rum and partying like that lubber<br />
of a friend of yars!<br />
ROSE<br />
Marie? She’s not so bad.<br />
LINK<br />
Rose. How many times has she ditched you to go to a rave?!<br />
AMY ROSE<br />
Or anytime her “just-a-friend” Jason needs some attention.<br />
FOXY FNAF1<br />
Aye them coves are just a bunch of three sheets to the wind. Son of<br />
a biscuit eaters! Ye see, lassie. There are far be worse addictions ye<br />
mum should be worried about. Do ye have good grades?<br />
ROSE<br />
Yes...<br />
122 <strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?
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