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Stone Soup’s Contest Series

Post Published February 8, 2024 by Stone Soup Editors

Stone Soup is excited to announce our new contest series! We are now accepting submissions for our short story, poetry, and artwork prizes. We will select a single winner—one story, one poem, and one piece of art—from each category and publish them in the magazine.

Weekly Creativity #156 | Flash Contest #32: Write a First Person Story Based on a Grandparent/Older Friend’s Memory

Post Published June 7, 2021 by Sage Millen

Interview a grandparent or older friend about a memorable moment from their childhood. Then, turn that memory into a first-person story, written from their point of view. Submit your entries here.

Weekly Creativity #147 | Flash Contest #30: Visit the Same Place Every Day for a Week and Document what You See

Post Published April 5, 2021 by Sage Millen

Visit the same place—precisely the same location—multiple times a day, or at the same time every day for a week. Document what you see through photography, other art forms, or writing! To be considered for the the April 2021 Flash Contest, visit our submittable site here and submit by Sunday, April 11 at midnight.

Weekly Flash Contest – final week August 24, 2020

Post Published March 29, 2020 by Stone Soup Editors

Contest based on Monday's Daily Creativity Prompt Every weekday morning from March to late August 2020, we published a Daily Creativity prompt. We decided to get everyone focused by turning every Monday's prompt into a Flash Contest! For this rolling weekly contest, all you have to do is pick up the Daily Creativity prompt published on a Monday, and submit your response to it via Submittable by ...

Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “No Longer Blue,” by Olivia Park, 12

Post Published August 23, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

https://soundcloud.com/user-28081890/no-longer-blue/s-3Ks0r I walked back and forth in my room, looking out at skies that were no longer blue. The television droned on. “Oxygen levels are steadily decreasing, and oxygen costs are higher than ever. On to today’s weather, in New Delhi, 679 micrograms of PM 2.5 and high temperatures of . . .

Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “The Dreamer,” by Claire Nagle, 12

Post Published August 22, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

Today we showered. We always all shower with our cold water, on the first Sunday of the month. This Sunday is particularly special though, because it is also the first day of 2186, which means we will look through our family photo album! My little sister Maisie runs around singing, “photographs, photographs, let's look at photographs.” Papa gets out the leather bound book of pictures.

Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “A Splash of Water,” by Tara Prakash, 12

Post Published August 21, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

I had never liked the ocean, and that was before I fell off the boat and into it, headfirst. My dad and I were on one of his boating trips. He was a scientist on climate change, and every few months, he ventured out into the deep Pacific waters, and took a temperature of the water, with a tool called a thermometer.

Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “Back in the Days” by Gemma Yin, 11

Post Published August 20, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

The sky was smashing and attractive. It was the hue of tomatoes, marmalade and freshly picked lemons. Cumulus clouds were slowly drifting by and the sun was just about to go hiding behind the endless mountains. Of course, you only see that kind of stunning site on TV nowadays where rich companies just make winsome backdrops of impossible sights and post them to make humans think that they are l...

Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “Lilith’s Quest,” by Sabrina Guo

Post Published August 19, 2019 by Sabrina Guo

https://soundcloud.com/user-28081890/liliths-quest-by-sabrina-guo-13 Once upon a time, a young girl named Lilith lived in an igloo with her family, a pack of polar bears. She loved to wear her hair in braids and make her family icicle sculptures. She also loved to eavesdrop, and one morning, as she was hiding behind an igloo, she heard her pack leaders talking about the problems facing their ...

Music Contest Winners 2017

Post Published February 22, 2017 by Jane Levi

The entries for our February 2017 Music Contest, in which Stone Soup readers recorded their performances of Anna Steiger's childhood composition La Valse des Fleurs (Flower Walz), were so good we decided to choose three winners instead of just one. Each of them receive the prize of a $15.00 Amazon gift certificate, with our congratulations. You can see and hear all of their performances here.

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