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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Table of Contents<br />
Short Stories<br />
Savvas Matiatos ......7<br />
Katie Holmgren ..... 12, 19<br />
Addie Fowler ......... 25<br />
Tava Guillory ........ 26<br />
Jade Balansag .........31<br />
Hannah Thomas ......33<br />
Poetry<br />
Skylar Wright ...... 42<br />
Kaylyn Easterly ....47<br />
Jing O’Brien .........48<br />
Brianna Clark .......49<br />
From <strong>Story</strong> <strong>Lab</strong><br />
4th Grade Haiku .......56<br />
5th Grade “This I Believe”....71<br />
SEER School Haiku....82<br />
Lena Keilman ..........85<br />
Jasmine Nellis, Olivia Quiggle.. 86<br />
Invented Words..........87<br />
Surrealist Poems.........88<br />
Personal Essays<br />
Jordan McLuckie.....91<br />
Denver Evans.........94<br />
Jing O’Brien............98<br />
Molly Melnick.........100<br />
Trista Elixman........103<br />
One-Act Plays<br />
Debbie Yearwood.......106<br />
Kelsey Thein..........113<br />
Cover: Chloe Froehlich<br />
<strong>Sitka</strong> High School<br />
<strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?<br />
S T O R I E S O F S T R A N G E<br />
L A N D S C A P E S , W R O N G<br />
T U R N S, A N D N EW WO R LD S<br />
<strong>Student</strong> <strong>Anthology</strong> Editors:<br />
Sarah Swong<br />
Henry Colt<br />
Devin Myers<br />
Island Institute Director:<br />
Peter Bradley<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Linda Behnken<br />
Brenda Campen<br />
Dan Henry<br />
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins<br />
Reid Magdanz<br />
Willow Moore<br />
Rob Snyder<br />
Based in <strong>Sitka</strong>, the Island Institute is<br />
a nonprofit organization that strives<br />
to strengthen community resilience<br />
through storytelling.<br />
<strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I: Stories of Strange<br />
Landscapes, Wrong Turns, and New<br />
Worlds is the Island Institute’s first<br />
publication to feature Southeast<br />
Alaskan student writing. Copyright<br />
© 2016. All rights revert to authors.<br />
Single copies are $10. Books are<br />
designed and produced by hand at<br />
the Island Institute, 304 Baranof<br />
Street, <strong>Sitka</strong>, Alaska 99835. Support is<br />
provided by the Alaska State Council<br />
on the Arts, Crossett Fund, Juneau<br />
Community Foundation through the<br />
Machamer Fund, City & Borough<br />
of <strong>Sitka</strong>, <strong>Sitka</strong> Charitable Trust,<br />
Rasmuson Foundation, and private<br />
contributions.<br />
peter@iialaska.org<br />
www.islandinstitutealaska.org<br />
907-747-3794
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