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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4TH GRADE HAIKU<br />
Finnian<br />
Fly up in the air<br />
Flies into a spider’s web<br />
Next meal for spider<br />
In a murky swamp<br />
There’s something mysterious<br />
A pretty lily<br />
In the large ocean<br />
There is a giant blue whale<br />
With some barnacles<br />
A field of flowers<br />
One little purple tulip<br />
A striped honey bee.<br />
Walking through the woods.<br />
Oh! Look at nature’s beauty.<br />
Ow! A mosquito.<br />
Pebbles on the ground<br />
Continuously stepped on<br />
And crushed to gravel.<br />
Spring is coming now<br />
And the daffodils are out-<br />
Just do not eat them!<br />
Southeast Alaska <strong>Student</strong> <strong>Anthology</strong><br />
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