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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SHS revives literary magazine
Sisters choir program
serves up concert
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
In 2008, Samra Spear, an
English teacher at Sisters High
School, started a literary mag-
azine. The literary magazine is
called Verbatim (student-titled
in its first year). The last pub-
lished issue was in 2011 and
one hadn’t been created due to
lack of student interest.
This year, senior Johanna
Geisen decided to take on
the task of reviving the
publication.
“I needed a first period and
had already taken creative
writing once so I decided [on]
advanced creative writing as
an independent study, and
was figuring out projects to
work on. I mentioned to Mrs.
Spear that I wanted to be an
editor, so she suggested that I
do the literary magazine” said
Geisen.
“I had wanted to start it
up again but I needed to find
student interest, and I look for
people that have an interest in
a future of editing and writ-
ing,” said Spear.
The literary magazine is a
collection of student-written
pieces of poetry and stories.
Students write their pieces
and then submit them to be
reviewed. The 2017 edition
contains nature photos all
taken by Will Werts, a senior
The choir program in
Sisters schools is thriving
under the guidance of Choir
Director Rick Johnson — as
evidenced by last week’s pop
show, the traditional closing
show of the school year.
Singers from sixth grade
to graduating seniors per-
formed at the Sisters High
S ch o ol Au d i to r i u m o n
Wednesday, May 24.
Julie Cash accompa-
nied the singers on piano as
6th-graders sang “Yellow
PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS
Johanna Geisen and Samra Spear are proud of Verbatim.
at SHS. The magazine mostly
ended up containing submis-
sions from Spear’s AP English
class. Students could submit
anonymously or with a byline.
Spear gave Geisen full rein
over the magazine in design
and finding out what to do to
get it produced. Johanna chose
the publishing company and
explored and researched all
she would need to know about
publishing it.
“She was in contact with
whoever she needed to be
in contact with to get it pro-
duced” said Spear. “Johanna
just ran with it.”
“My favorite part of doing
the literary magazine was get-
ting to choose and read all of
the students’ submissions,”
Geisen said. “It was really
hard to pick because there was
so many good ones.”
She has been working
on the literary magazine all
semester.
“It was really great to see
the final product,” she said.
There are a limited number
of magazines; they can be pur-
chased in Spear’s classroom
for $10.
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