Archives of My Memory
By 826CHI
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Join these writers as they mine the archives of their memories. Teen writers from across Chicago reflect on the concept of "grim fantasy," derived from Octavia Butler's Kindred. Through their experiences, imaginations, dreams, and knowledge these writers create a multi-genre lens to view their realities.
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Archives of My Memory - 826CHI
IT WENT TO THE MOON // FUN DE LA LUNA
WRITING BY 826CHI'S AFTER-SCHOOL WRITING LAB // ESCRIBIENDO DESDE EL AFTER-SCHOOL WRITING LAB DE 826CHI
826CHI
826CHICONTENTS
It Went to the Moon // Fue a la luna
Foreword
Asia Calcagno
Foreword
Asia Calcagno
A Note from the Teaching Artists
TRAGEDY
Denise R.
Oliver B.
Anna K.
Eloise M.
Anaiya M.-C.
Denise R.
Helayna J.
Ethan D.
Jesse C.
TIME
Ethan V.
Harper M.
Nathaniel K.
Matthew K.
Lisa O.
Julian B.
Alice A.
COMEDY
Nicholas S.
Rowan K.
Liam P.
Anaiya M.-C.
Lucille H.
Alice A.
Layla P.
Artist Bios
Artist Bios
Acknowledgments
IT WENT TO THE MOON // FUN DE LA LUNA
It Went to the Moon is a bilingual chapbook featuring writing exploring character, dialogue, and theater from the students of 826CHI’s After Schoool Writing Lab. Our caring and supportive volunteers and facilitators will provide individualized assistance with ELA and writing-based homework, writing skills, and literacy enrichment to first through eighth graders. Students will also sharpen their writing skills with guided reading and creative writing activities.
Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit 826CHI, a non-profit writing, tutoring, and publishing center dedicated to amplifying the voices of Chicago youth.
IT WENT TO THE MOON // FUE A LA LUNA
Writing by 826CHI's After-School Writing Lab // Escribiendo desde el After-School Writing Lab de 826CHI
This book is a work of both fiction and nonfiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the products of the authors’ imaginations, are used fictitiously, or are totally realistic representations of these students’ experiences. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Or incidental. Or an instance of synchronicity, if you’re looking for it.
Cover design: Alex Cardenas
Book design: Cheryll Victuelles
Director of Programs: Asia Calcagno
Publishing Programs Coordinator: Joshua Bohnsack
Manager of Education: Natasha Mijares
Programs Coordinator: Anderson Chaves-Ferero
Teaching Artists: Emily Sanchez & Marya Spont-Lemus
Print ISBN: 978-1-948644-94-5
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part of any form. Published by Moody Publications.
Proceeds from your purchase of this publication support 826CHI, a non-profit creative writing, tutoring, and publishing center. www.826chi.org
The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and the authors’ imaginations. We support student publishing and are thrilled you picked up this book!
First Edition 826CHI 2022 // Printed in the United States by McNaughton & Gunn
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FOREWORD
ASIA CALCAGNO
A student walks up to the rainbow block bookshelf in the 826CHI Writing Lab and scans the rows of slender books. Finally, after a careful consideration, she grabs a book with a purple cover. She holds it in her hands, flipping it over and over to feel the weight of it.
This looks like it’s going to be a good one.
She reads silently turning each wing of a page.
After a year, we finally welcomed our students back to our Writing Lab. When they walk through our doors and turn the corner of the welcome desk, a jolt of energy takes over them as they sprint to the back to meet their friends, volunteers, and facilitators. Even though students have made a community agreement of no-running in our space, we allow elation to take over them despite and watch their plump bookbags lift off their backs and into the air as if it is their parachute.
Over such a long year of screened education, teachers and students doing their absolute best, creativity has not been lost. With new bean bag chairs, colorful binders stuffed with notebooks awaiting, and a jar of fidget toys ready at their expense, students delight us all with their wonder.
Students delved into a unit on playwriting. Starting the year with re-vamping old shoeboxes to display the art of worldbuilding, they delight us with the worlds they want to envision, create, and scribe. Some with cutouts of yellow suns tucked into