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.

Links of Interest:

What No One Ever Tells You
Skagit County Juvenile Detention  
YMCA Oasis Daylight Center  
Nathan McGehee, Artist & Designer
Washington State Arts Commission 

I Am a Fieldworker and I Am Tired

Student writing from the Migrant Leaders Club site. Matt and Alvin remember the performance of this piece from their trip to New York earlier this year—read on stage after the musical Miss You Like Hell, written by Quiara Alegría Hudes.

UW updates:

Matt shares about a recent meeting with the Migrant Leaders Club of the Mount Vernon School District.

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
Student Trip to New York
Miss You Like Hell by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Skagit Valley, Washington
Migrant Leaders Club
NPR's American Anthem Series: The Times They Are A-Changin'