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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #20: What Is a Poem?

Post Published November 6, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our twentieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 6, plus some of the output published below After receiving feedback about what s...
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City of Spies, Reviewed by Savarna, 13

Post Published November 2, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

‘“This operation is hot. We are a go.”’ Imagine a group of kids. Imagine they are spies. Imagine that the fate of every intelligence agency across the world hinges on their next decision.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #19: Objects

Post Published October 30, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our nineteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 30, plus some of the output published below Continuing our run of workshops focu...
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Writing Workshop #51: Apophenia – Finding Patterns in Unrelated Events

Post Published October 27, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-first Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 23rd, plus some of the output published below For this workshop, William introduced the concept of ...
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Awareness, Reflection… Awareflectness!

Post Published October 26, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Awareness, Reflection... Awareflectness! Madeleine Schor, 13 I have a particularly vivid memory from last autumn. While tidying up my room, something unexpected caught my eye.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #18: Monster Poetry

Post Published October 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our eighteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 23, plus some of the output published below In anticipation for Halloween next w...
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Coronavirus, a poem by Chloe, 9

Post Published October 22, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Tick-tock, tick-tock, the time seems to move like a snail as I wait for the world to move like a cheetah towards the Light Right now, It seems as if night rules the world And burns everyone’s...
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We’re the Resilient Generation, Not the COVID Generation

Post Published October 20, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

We're the Resilient Generation, Not the COVID Generation Olivia Shekou, 12 What is resilience? "Resilience" is used in physics to describe the way materials revert back to their original shape after...
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Writing Workshop #49: Thoughtful Word Choice

Post Published October 13, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 9, plus some of the output published below For this writing workshop, William presented one of his ...
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The Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy, Reviewed by Jackson, 12

Post Published October 8, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

When people think of fairy tales, they often think of traditional stories like Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Shrek. While these are all amazing fairy tales, the book Wings of Fire: The Drago...
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The People of Sparks, Reviewed by Orin, 11

Post Published October 4, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Sometimes teachers are right. From the moment I set my eyes on the first word of The City of Ember, I was intrigued. Yes. Leads are indeed effective. As I read through the rich storytelling and the wr...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #14: Translation

Post Published October 2, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fourteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 25, plus some of the output published below For this workshop on translation, ...
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Apart Together, a mixed media piece by Ena, 12

Post Published October 1, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

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Relocating, by Diya, 12

Post Published September 29, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Hello, it’s Diya again! Today, I wanted to keep this write-up short and simple. I recently moved to the Bay Area in California, as one of my parents moved jobs.
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Three poems by Kai Wells, 12

Post Published September 27, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Black God created us hoping we would be equal Not knowing that some would be treated differently Killed Murdered Shot Black You turn on the news and someone was killed...
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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #13: Ekphrasis

Post Published September 24, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our thirteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 18, plus some of the output published below For today's workshop, Conner chose...
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Writing Workshop #47: Character Descriptions

Post Published September 24, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 18, plus some of the output published below At this writing workshop, we looked at some classic...
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Writing Workshop #46: Monologues

Post Published September 18, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-sixth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 11, plus some of the output published below For the first writing workshop of the Fall term, Will...
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Stone Soup Author Interview: Tristan Hui

Post Published September 17, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Stone Soup contributor Lena Aloise, 12, talks with Stone Soup contributor and winner of the Stone Soup Book Contest 2020 Tristan Hui, 14, about her novel The Other Realm, published on September 1st, ...
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The Other Realm by Tristan Hui

Post Published September 17, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Welcome to the Book Page for The Other Realm, a fantasy novel by Tristan Hui, age 14, winner of the 2020 Stone Soup Annual Book Contest, published on September 1, 2021 by Children's Art Foundation–S...
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