Books published by Inwords

We hope you've enjoyed reading the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction online for our first year of Flying Island, and we're now proud to present our first annual Best of Flying Island for 2014.

Funded by the Summer Youth Program Fund, the Indiana Writers Center's "Building a Rainbow" creative writing program serves a diverse group of young people in Indianapolis, improving their writing and literacy skills through a series of creative writing exercises that teach them how to write the stories of their own lives. Working one-on-one, Writers Center instructors, student teachers, and volunteers help the young writers get their words on the page and also encourage them to reflect upon the experiences they've written about, considering how what they've learned can help them make their dreams come true. I Remember is a collection of writings completed during the Indiana Writers Center summer youth writing programs.

In this engaging collection, seniors from JCC Indianapolis and the Albert and Sara Rueben Senior and Community Resource Center remember small and large moments of their lives that will make you laugh, cry, and leave you full of wonder at the wide range of journeys that have brought them to now. From memories of Southaven, Michigan, an enclave for Jewish young people in the 1940's, to the horrors of Nazi Germany, these writers have not only created a legacy for their families, but also offer invaluable insights to those who want to know more about what it was like to live in their time. The introduction to Life Dances describes the writing exercise used to generate the stories, which will be of help those who want to write about their own lives.