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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #66: Ekphrasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 12, 2023

A Secret Beauty (Mona Lisa): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

by Ella Yamamura

Published August 10, 2022

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...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #40: Ekphrasis (Revisited)

by Stone Soup Editors

Published June 10, 2022

Frost (Portrait of Madame X): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

by Ella Yamamura

Published June 10, 2022

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. With skin fairer than Snow White, the Face of Winter...

The Great Beast (The Great Wave off Kanagawa): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

by Ella Yamamura

Published May 13, 2022

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...

Starry Night: A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14

by Ella Yamamura

Published March 29, 2022

Weekly Creativity #183: Write a Story that Begins and Ends in this Place: Fisherman’s Cottage by Harald Sohlberg

by Jane Levi

Published December 20, 2021

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

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #13: Ekphrasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published September 24, 2021

Writing Workshop #42: Ekphrasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 28, 2021

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 explaining the concept of...

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 Annual Book Contest Emma Catherine Hoff instructed the workshop. To start, Emma told workshop participants that ekphrasis is “when you write a poem or story about or based on a work of art.

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. It was a shame, really. She had a plump figure and a lively blush on her cheeks that suggested she was really someone enjoyable to be with, however, her permanent frown told otherwise.

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 favorite topic of the Stone Soup workshops. For the workshop portion, Emma presented us with the following three paintings and their accompanying ekphrastic interpretations.

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. With skin fairer than Snow White, the Face of Winter ignores all else while being trapped within her dark restraints that weigh her down— the only thing keeping her from blowing away and snapping in ...

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 the sanded wooden sides— the ones that bobbed up and down and were filled with goods. The beast lurked just beside that snow capped mountain the only home it ever knew.

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. Their side of the sky seems to favor the village of Starry Night by thousands, sprinkled with glittering souls of light that send down feathery beams of gold and silver.

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).

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 to focus on "ekphrasis," meaning a creative interpretation, response, or translation of another work of art.

Writing Workshop #42: Ekphrasis

Post Published May 28, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

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