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Student writers Olivia McDaniel and Bailey Simson with Stars and Stripes Europe writer Kat Nickola

Student writers Olivia McDaniel and Bailey Simson with Stars and Stripes Europe writer Kat Nickola (Kat Nickola)

Stars and Stripes Europe recently met up with some of our first student writers to find out why they chose to submit their stories.

Recently, DODEA school across Europe were invited to participate in our new student writer program. Schools in Germany and England have taken advantage of seminars taught by one of our writers and the option to get student writing published online.

Our first submissions came from students at Wiesbaden Middle School, and writer Kat Nickola visited them at the school. Their stories are linked below.

Military youth interested in submitting are encouraged to contact us at contentteam@stripes.com for details. We are especially interested in travel and military life stories told from the teen perspective.

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Kat is a travel and lifestyle writer based in Kaiserslautern, Germany with a special interest in anything theatrical, outdoorsy or ancient. She has a bachelor’s degree in geography from Penn State University and is currently in the depths of an archaeology dissertation for the University of the Highlands and Islands.

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