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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This is what a city is<br />
Skylar Wright<br />
A city is a mouth and it will sing to you in any language you choose<br />
A city is a mouth and it will only ever kiss you when it’s drunk,<br />
because otherwise it’s not comfortable with that kind of intimacy<br />
A city is a mouth and it will swallow you whole, even if it’s full.<br />
A city is a mouth and it’s a chain smoker, so it’s gross when it<br />
curses out love poems at you<br />
A city is a mouth and it’s got cavities of poetry, form gluttony feeding<br />
on your currencies<br />
A city is a mouth and its priorities are consumption and communication<br />
Skylar Wright is a senior at Pacific High School.<br />
Southeast Alaska <strong>Student</strong> <strong>Anthology</strong><br />
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