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A collection of letters written by journalism students navigating places, stories and personal reflections.

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Letter from León, Nicaragua

Some places belong in your family long before they ever belong to you. León was one of them.

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Fernanda Sanchez

Letter from Croatia and Across the Seas

This is an intergenerational journey from Croatia to Canada, where leaving home and starting over in a new country proves to be far from what you expect.

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Tin Belinic

Letter From The Q

Sometimes sport is more about the work than the show. Behind the scenes with a character player in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

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Aiden Glendenning

Hillcrest

“All I Do Is Win” is playing in the background. Judson reminisces about his walks to school with his dad in his hometown, Moncton, New Brunswick.

Personal Essays

Judson Doncaster

How the Grinch Stole a Plant

She is known to let every plant in her care die. Fernanda tries one more time to keep another one alive. Will she make it?

Personal Essays

Fernanda Sanchez

Echoes of the Mountain Bells: A Summer at Dechen Choekhor

Buddhism is “A Way of Life." Jennifer spends 30 days in a monastery in India, recording her day-to-day living with monks.

Personal Essays

Jennifer William

Surrounded by Stuff and Trying to Climb Out

Emily Lynch, an environmental studies student from Clarenville, volunteered at a thrift store during the summer. She reflects on how her clothes consumption was poisoning the world around her.

Personal Essays

Emily Lynch

The Summer I Fell in Love with Nature

Suzanne Shah, a student from Hyderabad, India, spends her first summer in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Unexpectedly, she finds herself loving every minute of it.

Personal Essays

Suzanne Shah

The Mountain and the Valley

After a life-changing injury, Presley embarks on a solo journey to the mountains of British Columbia.

Personal Essays

Presley Brooking

New stories, fresh voices

The Atlantic Watch is an initiative led by students in the journalism senior seminar at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. We are a team of emerging journalists telling original stories that are shaping our communities across Atlantic Canada