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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Three Poems<br />
Lena Keilman<br />
I.<br />
I hurt my foot<br />
It looked like a sunset<br />
It wouldn’t be good to eat<br />
But don’t laugh.<br />
Because laughs are EXTREMELY stinky.<br />
II.<br />
The fisherman got a Huge Fish.<br />
The Fish ate the dog.<br />
The Fish made a Jump<br />
But the Jump didn’t sing<br />
But the Jump was so graceful, the Fish was mesmerizing.<br />
III.<br />
The color Gold, shining in my hands,<br />
a beam of sunlight shines through the window,<br />
a lovely dancing skirt,<br />
a tropical bird singing its song,<br />
a cheetah, as fast as the color itself.<br />
A scent of Delilahs in the spring so fresh,<br />
The color of a flame that just can’t go out,<br />
The color of a throne fit for a king.<br />
Lena Keilman is a 4th grade student at Keet Gooshi Heen.<br />
86 <strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?
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