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The Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska
Fostering a Language of Place and Community
       PROGRAMS AND PUBLICATIONS
Symposium
An annual conference led by noted writers, thinkers, and community leaders exploring social and cultural ideas that are both local and global in relevance and scope.

Photo credit: Jim Drury

"The Sitka Symposium is a gathering of writers, activists, and community members from Alaska and other states, centered around discussions of a theme usually relevant to environmental issues. The quality of participants has earned this event a national reputation--there is nothing like it anywhere."

Richard Nelson, Symposium Faculty, Anthropologist and Essayist, Sitka, Alaska

Resident Fellows Program
Residencies for writers to pursue their work and share it with the community through workshops, readings, and school visits.
Connotations
A semi-annual journal featuring poetry, essays, and stories related to the Institute's mission, written by participants in our programs.
Occasional Books
Anthologies exploring themes featured in our programs

- From the Island's Edge. A Sitka Reader. Greywolf Press, 1995
      Winner of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award

- The Book of the Tongass. Milkweed Editions, 1999

 
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