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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New Words for the English Language<br />
<strong>Story</strong> <strong>Lab</strong> <strong>Student</strong>s<br />
Kengoma (n.), the death of a pet.<br />
Meycha (n.), when you cry for no reason.<br />
Yorone (n.). afraid of someone you know that’s nice.<br />
– Seren Courtwright<br />
Ovopllet (v.), to buy mass amounts of things and not use them.<br />
Ocentuaelemaphobia (n.), the fear of the periodic table.<br />
Carokside (n.), someone who reminds you of a book character.<br />
Birappyless (n.), when you get a birthday gift but you don’t know<br />
what it is.<br />
Andathanoyingomus (n.), when a person blurts out algebra facts<br />
when other people in the room are trying to concentrate.<br />
– Jesse Hanson<br />
Caploon (n): a loon with a baseball cap on.<br />
One day, a man wearing a baseball cap walked by a lake with a common<br />
loon in it. Out of nowhere, a baseball came whizzing towards the<br />
man, knocking the baseball cap off the man and onto the loon.<br />
– Rowan Goff<br />
Skoffee (n): coffee with crushed up pieces of skull in it.<br />
There once was a giant. He loved coffee but he thought something was<br />
missing so he took some human skulls, smashed them, and put them in<br />
his coffee. He told his giant friends, and it became known as skoffee.<br />
– Isabel Carter<br />
88 <strong>Where</strong> <strong>Am</strong> I?
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