Flash Contest #22: Write a Story About a Unifying Place Maybe this is a coffee shop where a regular group of writers share their work, or a church where folks go to practice their religion. Simply explore how these people are unified, and why. For our last in the current series of weekly flash contests, […]
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Saturday Newsletter: August 29, 2020
A note from Emma When I selected Three Days til EOC as the winner of our inaugural Stone Soup book contest, I didn’t know how close it would seem we were already to the end of our civilization—especially in our little corner of the world, in Santa Cruz, California, where the pandemic has teamed up with climate […]
Flash contest #21: Write a poem about your favorite place to be: Our Winners and their Work!
Flash contest #21: Write a poem about your favorite place to be The week commencing August 17th (Daily Creativity Prompt #106) was our twenty-first week of Flash Contests. The prompt asked our entrants to write a poem about their favorite place to be. The over-fifty entries we received ranged from poetry about the comfort of […]
Saturday Newsletter: August 1, 2020
“Among the Asparagus” by Ula Pomian, 13 (Ontario, Canada) Published in the July/August 2017 issue of Stone Soup A note from Jane This year’s double summer issue is a special poetry issue, composed of the two wonderful poetry collections by our 2019 book contest second-placed authors, Analise Braddock (The Golden Elephant) and Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer […]
Flash Contest #12: A World Without Color. Our Winners and Their Work!
Weekly Flash Contest #12: What would the world be like without color? What if there were a few select people who could see colors? Write about the effects of not being able to see color, or of there being no color, and how that affects people and society in a good or bad way . . […]
MOPING ALONG MUDDY RIVER
On a cold winter morning I have a class At the Museum of Fine Arts. The frosty wind awakens me. I turn to the river and there, Like a still life created overnight: Muddy ice, shaped like dirty brushes, A mallard crossing to the other side, A plastic bottle floating in the water hole. As […]
Saturday Newsletter: June 20, 2020
Canon PowerShot G7X A note from William Juneteenth—Black Lives Matter. With every new police murder of an unarmed black man, and images of police attacking Americans who are exercising their constitutional right to protest government actions, it is clear that for many Americans, their city police can feel more like an occupying army than a civilian police force there […]
Flash Contest #9: Mystery Stories. Our Winners and Their Work!
Weekly Flash Contest #9: Write a mystery story. Think about the arc of your story, and plan out the actions and motives of the characters. Does the reader know something the characters don’t, or is the reader in the dark until the end? Think about how the mystery might unfold for the different characters and […]
Weekly Writing Workshop #8, Friday May 22, 2020: Stream of Consciousness
An update from our eighth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arrangements. Every Friday, we meet for an hour and a half via Zoom […]
Weekly Writing Workshop #6, Friday May 8, 2020: Sense of Place
An update from our sixth weekly writing workshop A summary of this week’s project, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop, held on Fridays at 1:00 p.m. PST, is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arrangements. We meet via Zoom to respond to a […]