Autobiography (iPhone 6s) By Amity Doyle, 11 (Katonah, NY) & published in the September 2021 Issue of Stone Soup A note from Caleb Classes We were so excited to see all of your faces last weekend—new and returning—for our first round of fall session classes! If you haven’t yet signed up and fear you’ve missed your chance, don’t be discouraged; we are still taking new students in all four of our classes (writing workshop with William, writing workshop with Conner,…
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The Other Realm by Tristan Hui
Welcome to the Book Page for The Other Realm, a fantasy novel by Tristan Hui, age 14, winner of the 2020 Stone Soup Annual Book Contest, published on September 1, 2021 by Children’s Art Foundation–Stone Soup Inc. Awards & Listings 2021: The Other Realm was announced as a silver medalist for the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards in the category of Best Book by Youth Author (under 18). Launched in 2007, the Moonbeam Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s…
Get Myself a Rocking Chair
Katrina’s life changes when she starts visiting Mr. McCumber, a lonely old man with no family of his own Chapter One Lord I been hangin’ out of town in that low-down rain Watchin’ good-time Charlie, friend, is drivin’ me insane Down on shady Charlotte Street, the green lights look red Wish I was back home on the farm, in my feather bed The soft music of the guitar floated through the still air. Smoke from a chimney could be seen…
Saturday Newsletter: June 19, 2021
“Untitled” (acrylic)By Halil (Syria), created with the support of the Inside-Outside Project and published in Stone Soup June 2021. Artist description of the piece (translated from Arabic): There is something hiding behind the painting. There is a ghost behind it. It is the ghost of someone. (Who?) (No answer to that.) It is not me (says the artist); it is another girl who is afraid. The ghost frightens people, but it does not hurt them. (What does the girl in…
Saturday Newsletter: June 12, 2021
A note from Caleb As I have just this week finished my undergraduate studies, turning in a finely tuned creative project of thirty pages, I can understand to some degree the level of time, effort, and skill required to complete a novella. Unlike Ariana, however, my project has not been published and thus has not undergone the same level of edits and in-depth thought. And, to boot, she has done it at only 12 years old! So, let’s take a…
Saturday Newsletter: May 8, 2021
“Perspective (Pencil) by Grace Williams, 12 (Katonah, NY), and published in the May 2021 Issue of Stone Soup A note from Sarah Feedback Survey Have you participated in a writing workshop? We’re asking former participants and those who may be interested in attending a workshop in the future to fill out a feedback form, available here, so we can see what has and hasn’t been working. We really appreciate you taking the time to let us know what you think….
Saturday Newsletter: February 27, 2021
“Winding Staircase” (Canon Powershot G10), photographed by Jeremy Nohrnberg, 10, (Cambridge, MA) and published in the February 2021 Issue of Stone Soup A note from Caleb I wanted to start out by briefly recognizing the work you continue to do in the Writing Workshop. As a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I have taken numerous writing workshops, and few come close to the level of genius you routinely display in just thirty minutes. It seems every week your work…
The Apricot Journal: Creating A Literary Magazine
Preface Stone Soup has been an inspiration to me for a long time, from when I first starting reading it as a ten-year-old, never even considering that I could submit and have the chance to be published, to now, when I have been published in the magazine several times, have attended countless Writing Workshops and Book Clubs, and have been interning with Stone Soup for the better part of a year. Therefore, it is no surprise to me that Stone…
Saturday Newsletter: February 6, 2021
“Norway’s Light” by Freyja Land, 10 (Brooklyn, NY) Published in the February 2021 issue of Stone Soup A note from Emma I teach poetry to undergraduates at the University of California-Santa Cruz, and many of the poems my students start out writing are a series of disconnected fragments—there’s no punctuation, and they maybe aren’t even written in full sentences. This is poetry! they seem to think. Anything goes! Well, yes and no. The form of the poem (how it uses…
Saturday Newsletter: January 30, 2021
“Spring” by Sloka Ganne, 10 (Overland Park, KS) Published in Stone Soup January 2021 A note from Caleb Summer school news. Stone Soup and the Society for Young Inklings are teaming up again this summer. We are going to offer more classes than last year. Our goal is to have the program finalized within the next two or three weeks so you can begin registering. We have a couple surprises for you—but, no spoilers today! Hello Stone Soup family! You…
