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Welcome to Northern Lit
Hello and welcome to Northern Lit, the eZine developed and managed by the Alaska State Writing Consortium. Northern Lit is the next step in publishing Alaskan students’ and teachers’ voices by the Alaska State Writing Consortium and the National Writing Project.
Volume 1, Editon One: Diversity
Volume I showcases works of teacher leaders of our ASWC Lead Technology Initiative. In addition, we’ve included exemplars written by students of our Lead Technology teacher leaders. We hope to reinforce and model best writing practice: excellent teachers of writing also are writers.
The paramount question we want our readers to ponder: How do we not only encourage and celebrate diversity but also allow this abstraction to serve as catalyst for positive transformation in the world? What kind of public and electronic spaces do we need to create that can serve as prime incubation hubs for this transformative thinking to begin to take shape and ultimately begin movement?
In The Open Space of Democracy Terry Tempest Williams harkens that “the open space of democracy provides justice for all living things…it is a landscape that encourages diversity and discourages conformity.”
Volume 1, Edition Two
Volume Two, Edition One: Decisions
Decisions. . . decisions. So many things to think about. But what about the word itself? What situations does the word decisions make us consider? When thinking about this topic, we can consider these:
- Decisions we’ve made
- Decisions others have made
- The long-term and short-term consequences or backlash or bounties from certain decisions
- What is the process involved in coming to a decision?
- What decision have we made that has made us satisfied?
- Or sorry?
- Or regretful?
- Or joyful?
- Or enlightened?
- Or changed as individuals?
What does it mean to win or lose “by decision”? What are decisions that have changed the community? the state? the nation? the world?
Please take a few minutes to brainstorm with your students about this subject of decisions and encourage them to produce a piece of writing for the ASWC e-zine, Northern Lit. We are eager to publish quality student writing on the e-zine, and I cordially invite you all to express yourselves and submit your selected pieces to the e-zine at this Northern Lit website. Submissions can be in the form of essays, narratives, short stories, poems, videos, or podcasts. We welcome digital photography that accompanies written pieces.