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 I BELIEVE<br />
Rianna<br />
I believe in me and my brother. We’ve had to go through bad times<br />
before, but it was worse when my brother’s life was on the line.<br />
When I was nine, and my brother, Cody, still had his paper route,<br />
what I feared most happened. I was downstairs on the old, crumbling<br />
couch, and my mom ran downstairs and shouted “Rianna,<br />
Cody was hit by a car! Come on!”<br />
I was so scared when we got to the hospital. It also didn’t help that<br />
right next to us they were bringing him in on a stretcher. We went<br />
through one door, another door, another door. Cody turned and<br />
went through a side door, and we went through more doors!<br />
When we got to the waiting room, I started watching TV. I didn’t<br />
have the remote so it got really boring. But then a doctor came out<br />
and said he was talking. I was really happy. Not so much, though,<br />
when that same doctor came back out and said it was a co-worker,<br />
not Cody. You would think they would know the difference.<br />
When the doctor came out again, she told us he had to be medivaced<br />
to Seattle. So it was settled. My dad would ride with Cody and<br />
me and my mom would buy plane tickets.<br />
When we got to the hospital it was amazing! The place we were<br />
staying at was really nice. My aunt and my uncle were in the room<br />
next to us, so it was nice having family. I spent a lot of time with<br />
my cousins but when they left my parents thought I should, too.<br />
So my parents sent me to my grandma and grandpa who lived in<br />
Port Townsen. When I was there I was sad so I was by myself a lot.<br />
My parents had stayed in Seattle so I would isolate myself downstairs.<br />
But when my grandparents went to go visit Cody I got to stay<br />
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