Long Way Down

11/05/18 • 24 min

The Underground Writing Podcast

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What No One Ever Tells You

This episode features writing from our Juvenile Detention and YMCA Oasis Daylight Center sites. Matt Malyon and producer Alvin Shim discuss how the writings engage with and expand the title of What No One Ever Tells You, our first anthology of student writing. The book will be released in December 2018 and is supported in part by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.

Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.

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I Am Waiting

UW Director Matt Malyon chats with Producer Alvin Shim about “I Am Waiting,” a piece of student writing from our site at the Skagit County Community Justice Center. They share stories of waiting in incarceration, bearing the lack of options that the justice system offers, and the individual posture of waiting vs. action. Matt reads from a letter of advocacy regarding youth offenders being tried as adults.Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.LINKS OF INTEREST:What No One Ever Tells You - Underground Writing’s first anthology, available December 2018The Seattle Times, "Seismic Shift . . ."NPR - The Teenage BrainUnderground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

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