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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To the Bully I Bully<br />
Skylar Wright<br />
I’m sorry I talked down to you for saying I talk down to you. I really<br />
want you to know that I don’t care enough about you to hate,<br />
no one does. Don’t think that makes you an eligible candidate for<br />
my pity. There are times when I have thought to kick you in the<br />
face with my new Timberlands, because you don’t deserve any<br />
kind of skin contact from me. I’d punch you in the face so hard<br />
that your teeth would become crumbling projectiles that I would<br />
then make you look me in the eye and swallow. Despite your aggressive<br />
nature you’re a masochist when it comes to me and my<br />
verbal arsenal. You have only once attempted to insult me verbally<br />
Nick and an entire third period Spanish class cussed you out of<br />
the room, including Mrs. Lauran. Calling me a Bitch has no effect<br />
on me. It alludes to your interest in bestiality and means that given<br />
the opportunity I would eat your face. I won’t.<br />
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