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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #46: The Villanelle

Post Published October 29, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 22, plus some of the output published below This week Emma Hoff, 10, led her t...
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Faceless, Reviewed by Sita, 13

Post Published March 21, 2022 by Sita

Alyssa Sheinmel’s novel Faceless does a remarkable job of portraying the psychological problems involved in the aftermath of a traumatic accident. The protagonist, high school senior Maisie Winters,...
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All We Can Do Is Wait, Reviewed by Sita, 13

Post Published February 18, 2022 by Sita

All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson is an incredibly moving story about life, death, and the gray area in between. It is set in Boston, Massachusetts, with the collapse of the Tobin Bridge bringin...
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“Positive,” a personal narrative by Sarayu B., 11

Post Published December 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Positive Sarayu B, 11 I got the news sometime in January. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my grandmother to get better. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, and the more I thought about...
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Dawn (William) – Saturday, 9/11

Post Age 14 Published November 27, 2021 by Liam Hancock

The tree stands, its branches gnarled and twisted and folding in upon themselves. It has long since shed a bright tapestry of greens and oranges and yellows, ever-changing with the passing of time and...
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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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Defined By Suffering (William’s class; September 18, 2021)

Post Age 11 Published September 19, 2021 by Peri Gordon

Defined By Suffering (William’s class; September 18, 2021) By Peri Gordon, 11 What to do with such terrible eyes? They were wide, wet, bloodshot things that stood out even in a crowd of a hundred, a...
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Rubble

Post Age 12 Published August 9, 2021 by Ismini Vasiloglou

In the summer of 2017, a horrific earthquake hit the Greek island of Lesvos. In the summer of 2017, my family’s village, Vrisia, was reduced to a terrifying pile of fractured, falling buildings and ...
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Untitled

Post Published August 1, 2021 by Emma Birches

A mother comes into her house to find her son dead in the bed, riddled with bullets. The other child is crying. “Razan” is the artist’s name (at the top).
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Untitled

Post Published August 1, 2021 by Emma Birches

The girl who drew this witnessed the scene. There is a burning hospital in the upper-right. A mother is crying for her son in the lower left. The child in the bottom center was eating a candy bar when...
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