St Ives High School Literary Journal Volume 2

Welcome to the second edition of the St Ives High School Literary Journal. St Ives High School is a public high school on Sydney's North Shore in Australia. The journal is edited and published by students from St Ives High School, and its poems and short stories represent just a fraction of the emerging talent that is so often hidden away in school exercise books and journals.
Everyday, millions of high school students around the world create works of literary brilliance; poems and short stories that should be shared and published, but which remain buried between the barred lines of exercise books and entombed in the growing pyramids of garbage heaps. The reasons for these tragedies are twofold; firstly, overworked English teachers often lack the resources to guide their students towards a proper expression of their work, and secondly, adolescent self-esteem and inertia inhibits any independent effort to seek-out publication through alternative means. The St Ives High School Literary Journal aims to take one step closer to resolving this dilemma and it is hoped that the publication of this journal will inspire future students to embrace the opportunity to share their work.