Voice/Craft

Voice/Craft, sponsored by Parkland College’s Division of Art & Sciences, is a program designed to nurture and celebrate the distinctive voices of the District’s middle-school students. All students who submit work to Voice/Craft receive personalized feedback and notes of appreciation from the editorial committee, which also chooses representative original works to publish in book form. This collection assembles together all submissions to the program organized by year, including those not selected by the editorial committee for publication. We think you will agree that the writers and the works included here demonstrate extraordinary creativity and insight and show that District 505 students are benefitting from excellent writing instruction. We wish to thank, especially, the teachers who have put in the hard work of nurturing these students and their writing and have made this collection possible by encouraging them to submit their work.

See the Voice/Craft Homepage for more information.

Current Volume: Volume 1 (2026)

Introduction

Schools represented in this issue:
East Prairie Middle School
Unity Junior High School
Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School
Heritage Junior High School
Next Generation School