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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #66: Ekphrasis

Post Published May 12, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our sixty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett and special guest Emma Catherine Hoff A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 6 This week, winner of the Stone Soup 2022 A...
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A Secret Beauty (Mona Lisa): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

Post Published August 10, 2022 by Ella Yamamura

I was tired of convincing Lisa to smile. Every time we sat down with her, she simply crossed her arms and stared at me through a set of deep, solemn eyes, her mouth refusing to curl into a smile.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #40: Ekphrasis (Revisited)

Post Published June 10, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fortieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, June 4 This week, Emma Hoff, 10, led workshop with her own interpretation of ekphrasis, a...
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Frost (Portrait of Madame X): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

Post Published June 10, 2022 by Ella Yamamura

The Face of Winter She stands— a frozen flower; frostbitten. A gaze that could wither the sturdiest tree is aimed at the right. Bull’s eye.
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The Great Beast (The Great Wave off Kanagawa): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

Post Published May 13, 2022 by Ella Yamamura

The great beast tipped with an army of acid claws it sported a color blue so deep you could fall in and no one would see you sink. It’s favorite kind of prey were the ones with ...
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Starry Night: A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

Post Published March 29, 2022 by Ella Yamamura

Our village looks like a mirror without a reflection, lively, but bland. It wouldn’t, normally, but the village of Starry Night just a couple fields away outshines us by a million stars. Literally.
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Weekly Creativity #183: Write a Story that Begins and Ends in this Place: Fisherman’s Cottage by Harald Sohlberg

Post Published December 20, 2021 by Jane Levi

Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935).
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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 #42: Ekphrasis

Post Published May 28, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from William's forty-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below William started off the Writing Workshop by explaini...
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