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"Stone Soup is the literary magazine and website 100% written and illustrated by kids through age 13. "

"Stone Soup is the literary magazine and website 100% written and illustrated by kids through age 13. "

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

about three months

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    No

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

8 genres

Fiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Review

Max words: 600

Stone Soup welcomes reviews by kids of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction books, movies, TV shows, and video games.

Poetry

In packets of 3-5. Fewer is okay, too. Any subject, any form.

Art

All images should be complete scenes in color, filling the entire page. Know that we do have more opportunity to use images of dogs and cats...

Nonfiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Note that we are looking for personal narratives--I.e. vividly told stories about the big and small moments in your life--not, at the moment...

Play

Max pieces: 1

The maximum length for a Stone Soup play is 2,500 words

Video

No specific limitations

Audio

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Review

Max words: 600

Stone Soup welcomes reviews by kids of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction books, movies, TV shows, and video games.

Poetry

In packets of 3-5. Fewer is okay, too. Any subject, any form.

Art

All images should be complete scenes in color, filling the entire page. Know that we do have more opportunity to use images of dogs and cats...

Nonfiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Note that we are looking for personal narratives--I.e. vividly told stories about the big and small moments in your life--not, at the moment...

Play

Max pieces: 1

The maximum length for a Stone Soup play is 2,500 words

Video

No specific limitations

Audio

No specific limitations

Statistics

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How to submit

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

Young creators

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Stone Soup welcomes submissions from around the world by writers and artists ages 13 and younger. Upload only ONE submission; wait until you receive a response to your submission before uploading any more. Note that the majority of the stories we publish are only 2-5 pages long. We will consider previously published work--but it depends on where it was published! So, if this applies to you, please note in your cover letter where the piece appeared and when. Payment. If your play is published, you will receive $25. 2 printed copies in other cases.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1973 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

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