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Workshops

Writing Workshop #24: Personification

An update from our twenty-fourth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 10, plus some of the output published below This week our founder William Rubel led a workshop on personification: writing that brings objects, places and things alive by ascribing human characteristics and emotions to them. We read some vivid […]

Writing Workshop #23: Objects and Stories

An update from our twenty-third Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 3, plus some of the output published below This week, Stone Soup team member Jane Levi led a discussion about objects and their important role in building stories. We talked about useful, functional objects that might carry the action […]

Book Club Report: The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

An update from our twentieth Book Club meeting! Last Saturday, September 26, was the Stone Soup Book Club’s first Book Club meeting at its new meeting time: 9am PST on Saturdays. The Book Club ran for around an half-and-a-half and was attended by thirty participants from across the US, as well as in the UK. […]