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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KATIE HOLMGREN<br />
“You too, so I thought,” he replied. Then the Gentleman lungedtowards<br />
him and Clancy was no more, only his body, in the hands<br />
of a killer.<br />
The Gentleman cleaned his knife with a sigh and put another mark<br />
on the calendar. He watched Clancy’s dead body for a bit and then<br />
watched the sunset for a bit. While he put kindling on the fire,<br />
he thought of the present and of the future, but was careful not<br />
to think of the past. All this he did outside his hut— the waves<br />
splashing in front of him and the palms dancing the tango behind<br />
him. And at dinner that night, he ate meat.<br />
Katie Holmgren is a junior at <strong>Sitka</strong> High School.<br />
Southeast Alaska <strong>Student</strong> <strong>Anthology</strong><br />
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