Dates: Monday-Thursday 6/19/23-6/22/23
Time: 1 - 3 pm (PT) // 4 - 6 pm (ET)
Ages: 12-16

Once your story is written, where does it go? Really, just what happens when you put your pen down or when you close your laptop? In our time together, we’ll take a deep dive into answering those questions! 

Campers will learn hands-on about the basics of publication, from publishing other people’s work to getting our own writing published. Class activities will introduce us to different forms of writing and how they get published. We’ll spend time exploring ways to get our stories published. We’ll even work together to learn how to start and run a literary magazine. This camp is designed to help older campers build knowledge and confidence in the lives of their writing. Group collaboration will be encouraged. No prior knowledge of publishing is required.

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Stone Soup and Society of Young Inklings are both nonprofit organizations, and part of our collaborative mission is to celebrate the full, vibrant diversity of youth writers' voices and stories.

To apply for a scholarship, visit this link.

To donate in support of scholarships, visit this link.

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Instructor Bio:

Carmela Furio works with Stone Soup Magazine as their Production Coordinator. A writer, translator, and book designer, Carmela grew up in Illinois where she spent most of her time reading in the stacks of her school library. She graduated with a B.A. in English, Creative Writing, and Publishing and a B.A. in Italian from the University of Iowa, where she played a strong role in developing the literary journal community. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Library and Information Sciences. Carmela is the co-founder of the intercollegiate spec-lit/genre fiction journal, Wilder Things Magazine.

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Cancellation Policy:

Camp transfers or full refunds will be given for cancellations requested one week or more before the camp start date. For cancellation requests received less than one week before the camp start date, you may choose to transfer to another camp or receive a refund minus registration fees of $15.99.

Minimum enrollment: 6
Maximum enrollment: 20

Should minimum enrollment not be met, we will contact you to offer a full refund or other learning experience in exchange. 

Please contact us at info@younginklings.org with any questions.

Dates: Monday-Thursday 6/26/23-6/29/23
Time: 9 - 11 am (PT) // 12 - 2 pm (ET)
Ages: 9-14

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads." - Marianne Moore

Consider this a brief immersion in the populating imaginary gardens with real toads. Together, we will closely read poems from the past and present as we attempt to understand what a poem is and what it can do. Then, in a supportive and dynamic creative community, we will also write our own poetry. We will employ imitation and use frequent writing prompts to shake us out of established modes of thinking and writing. Students will leave this course with at least five poems as well as a stronger sense of the possibilities of poetry.

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Stone Soup and Society of Young Inklings are both nonprofit organizations, and part of our collaborative mission is to celebrate the full, vibrant diversity of youth writers' voices and stories.

To apply for a scholarship, visit this link.

To donate in support of scholarships, visit this link.

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Instructor Bio:

Emma Winsor Wood is Executive Director and Editor in Chief of Stone Soup. She is also the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX books, 2022) and the translator of A Failed Performance (Plays Inverse, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Fence, jubilat, DIAGRAM, The Colorado Review, and BOAAT, among others. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz.

She currently lives with her husband, their two young children, and two aging dogs in Connecticut. You can read more about her on her personal website.

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Cancellation Policy:

Camp transfers or full refunds will be given for cancellations requested one week or more before the camp start date. For cancellation requests received less than one week before the camp start date, you may choose to transfer to another camp or receive a refund minus registration fees of $15.99.

Minimum enrollment: 6
Maximum enrollment: 20

Should minimum enrollment not be met, we will contact you to offer a full refund or other learning experience in exchange. 

Please contact us at info@younginklings.org with any questions.

Dates: Monday-Thursday 7/24/23-7/27/23
Time: 9 - 11 am (PT) // 12 - 2 pm (ET)
Ages: 9-14

In this generative workshop that emphasizes the importance of play, we will use constraints in order to maximize our untapped potential as well as the potential of literature itself. We will read the work (prose, poetry, and theory) of some of the most playful and paradigm-shifting authors in literary history—Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Anne Garréta, Italo Calvino, to name a few. Our goal will not necessarily be to make sense, but to excite the senses. Each day of the workshop will be dedicated to different exercises of constraint writing such as: Lipogram (the omission of specific letters, like Perec's novel A Void, which avoids using the letter "e"), the Erasure technique (crossing/blacking out the words of a found text—newspaper, magazine, novel paragraph, etc.—in order to create a distinct work of your own), Stile (in which each new sentence in a paragraph begins with the last word/phrase of the previous sentence), and Exercices de Stile (the rewriting of the same piece in at least 5 different styles (changing POV, genre, etc.), the idea being that we would choose a piece written from one of the previous workshops to rewrite.

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Stone Soup and Society of Young Inklings are both nonprofit organizations, and part of our collaborative mission is to celebrate the full, vibrant diversity of youth writers' voices and stories.

To apply for a scholarship, visit this link.

To donate in support of scholarships, visit this link.

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 Instructor Bio:

Caleb Berg is the blog editor of Stone Soup, and an MFA candidate at the University of Houston where he teaches rhetoric and creative writing. He is primarily a novelist, but also studies short fiction and poetry. His work has been published in Emerge Literary Journal, Chinquapin, and Versification Zine.

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Cancellation Policy:

Camp transfers or full refunds will be given for cancellations requested one week or more before the camp start date. For cancellation requests received less than one week before the camp start date, you may choose to transfer to another camp or receive a refund minus registration fees of $15.99.

Minimum enrollment: 6
Maximum enrollment: 20

Should minimum enrollment not be met, we will contact you to offer a refund or other learning experience in exchange. 

Please contact us at info@younginklings.org with any questions.

Dates: Monday-Thursday 8/7/23-8/10/23
Time: 9 - 11 am (PT) // 12 - 2 pm (PT)
Ages: 9-14

Are you a poet interested in making your poems into a story? Or are you a story writer who’d like to try a story in verse? During our four days together, we’ll explore how poetry can bring the voice and themes of your story to life, as well as how to develop a storyline in poems. Each day will include exercises or prompts, with plenty of time for brainstorming and writing. The focus will be on storytelling in general, not only for short stories, so feel free to bring novel in verse ideas as well. We will primarily be working with poetic techniques in free verse but will also cover how to include tighter poetic forms.

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Stone Soup and Society of Young Inklings are both nonprofit organizations, and part of our collaborative mission is to celebrate the full, vibrant diversity of youth writers' voices and stories.

To apply for a scholarship, visit this link.

To donate in support of scholarships, visit this link.

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Instructor Bio:

Sonja K. Solter is a mentor with the Society of Young Inklings. She spent her childhood summers in her mother’s homeland of Finland and traveled the world extensively with her family. She read so voraciously as a child that she once brought over 70 books on a trip. (Her mother is still trying to figure out how that slipped by her).

Sonja graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She writes for all age levels and has had a reader published for the educational market. She has also been a Music Together director and teacher, where she especially enjoyed the collaborative improvisation aspect of the program.

Sonja lives with her husband and two children in Louisville, CO, and enjoys nature, travel, and yoga. Her debut middle-grade novel in verse, When You Know What I Know, is an ILA Honor Book and Colorado Book Award Finalist.

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Cancellation Policy:

Camp transfers or full refunds will be given for cancellations requested one week or more in advance of the camp start date. For cancellation requests received less than one week before the camp start date, you may choose to transfer to another camp or receive a refund less registration fees of $15.99.

Minimum enrollment: 6
Maximum enrollment: 20

Should minimum enrollment not be met, we will contact you to offer a full refund or other learning experience in exchange. 

Please contact us at info@younginklings.org with any questions.