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 />
Jessica<br />
When I was nine years old, I found out there was going to be a<br />
gymnastics program at the Hames Center. The Hames Center is<br />
a gym for the whole town of <strong>Sitka</strong> to go and do sport activities.<br />
When I signed up for gymnastics, I had to be on the waiting list. A<br />
couple of days passed, and I got a phone call! It was the gymnastics<br />
coach. She told me that there was a spot open!<br />
It has been about a year since I started gymnastics. During the year,<br />
the program got a spring floor! A spring floor is a big blue foam<br />
mat on top of a ton of springs.<br />
For class one day, we were doing round off drills. A round off is a<br />
cartwheel, but done faster, and with your legs together. The round<br />
off drill I was doing was a round off over a blue and yellow octagon<br />
mat. But I didn’t land my round off – I landed on my ankle. When<br />
I fell, it hurt. It felt like a sharp pain shooting down my leg into my<br />
foot.<br />
I believe that learning from your mistakes is good, so that you can<br />
get back up again but fix what you did wrong.<br />
80 <strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?
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