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An excerpt from Born on the First of Two

Story Age 14 Published November 4, 2021 by Anya Geist

Editor’s Choice in our 2020 book contest Born on the First of Two was released on December 1, 2021. You can order the book at Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and at our store: amazon.
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Weekly Creativity #164 | Flash Contest #34: Use J.M.W. Turner’s Painting “The Banks of the Loire” as a Starting Point for a Stream of Consciousness Piece.

Post Published August 2, 2021 by Anya Geist

Use J.M.W. Turner's painting The Banks of the Loire as a starting point for a stream of consciousness piece. You can write a stream of consciousness piece about the painting itself, about how you imag...
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Book Club Report: The Jumbies, Tracey Baptiste

Post Published June 26, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-eighth Book Club meeting! On June 26, the Stone Soup Book Club met for its last meeting in this session. We discussed The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste, a book about Caribbean...
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Book Club Activity: Making Our Own Anthology

Post Published June 18, 2021 by Anya Geist

At our most recent Book Club meeting on May 29, the Stone Soup Book Club read Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, by Jason Reynolds (you can read about the meeting here).
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Book Club Report: Look Both Ways, Jason Reynolds

Post Published June 13, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-seventh Book Club meeting! On May 29, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, by Jason Reynolds.
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Book Club Report: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin

Post Published April 30, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-sixth Book Club meeting! On April 24, in the first meeting of our new session, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin.
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The House That Didn’t Fit In – 4/17 (Conner)

Post Age 14 Published April 20, 2021 by Anya Geist

And the whole house seemed to not quite fit in, always a bit out-of-place. The floors were old and scuffed but regal nevertheless, so whenever I saw them I was reminded of the days when a creaky old h...
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Book Club Report: The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall

Post Published March 31, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-fifth Book Club meeting! On Saturday, March 27, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, b...
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Book Club Report: The Thing About Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin

Post Published March 6, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-fourth Book Club meeting! On Saturday, February 27, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed The Thing About Jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin.
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The Apricot Journal: Creating A Literary Magazine

Post Published February 19, 2021 by Anya Geist

Preface Stone Soup has been an inspiration to me for a long time, from when I first starting reading it as a ten-year-old, never even considering that I could submit and have the chance to be publish...
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A photograph of tree branches against a dark, cloudy sky.

Colossal Clouds

Art Age 13 Published February 18, 2021 by Anya Geist

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Book Club Report: The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani

Post Published February 9, 2021 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-third Book Club meeting! At our first Book Club meeting of 2021, on January 30, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani.
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Languages (2/6)

Post Age 14 Published February 6, 2021 by Anya Geist

the words fall out of my mouth and spill through the air as I spout verses and lines holding intricate commas and delicate words weaving this web of prose rows and rows of english my native tongue the...
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What And Is (1/23)

Post Age 14 Published January 23, 2021 by Anya Geist

and and what is and? and is between even though is is between between and and and is walking and talking and is cause and effect and is so and so it isn’t its own you don’t say and by itself becau...
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Ships in the Night (Dec. 12)

Post Age 14 Published December 15, 2020 by Anya Geist

Tick. Tick. Tick. The passing of mere seconds seemed eternal that night. The sea was dark and still; its waves rolled peacefully, quietly. On its surface, the only motion exhibited was the dainty refl...
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Book Club Report: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill

Post Published December 8, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-second Book Club meeting! On Saturday, December 5, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed the novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon, written by Kelly Barnhill.
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Weekly Creativity #130 | Flash Contest: Create an Art Piece Based on a Family Tradition

Post Published December 7, 2020 by Anya Geist

Create a piece of art in any style, inspired by a family tradition.
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A black-and-white photograph of the view out a window.

Window of Black and White

Art Age 13 Published November 22, 2020 by Anya Geist

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Ruins Crumble

Post Age 14 Published November 14, 2020 by Anya Geist

Original- The wind softly blew, just a puff of breath. But it was a breath, it was alive, unlike the ruins over which it looked. The walls were crumbled and decayed, nearly churned to dust on the grou...
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Book Club Report: Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger

Post Published November 3, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our twenty-first Book Club meeting! Our most recent Book Club meeting was on October 31–Halloween! We had several participants who dressed up, representing characters from Harry Pott...
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