by Inklings Team | Jan 25, 2022 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Elizabeth Verdick loves to write picture book stories and nonfiction self-help for kids of all ages. She received her MFA from Hamline University in St. Paul. She spends her days writing and adoring her two French bulldogs. Elizabeth has two grown children: one loves...
by Inklings Team | Jan 20, 2022 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Alex is a writer based in the Bay Area and has an MFA in screenwriting. He worked as a Story Assistant for film and TV production in Los Angeles before working as an Assistant Producer at LucasArts in San Francisco. He’s querying his first novel, a Middle Grade...
by Inklings Team | Jan 18, 2022 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
As a fourth grader, Tasslyn Magnusson once tried to read her school library from A to Z, backward. She got stuck on P. L. Travers and Mary Poppins and has been reading anything and everything since. When she’s not writing her poetry or working on her middle grade...
by inklings | Jan 13, 2022 | Written by Inklings
Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2021 finalist Risha Jadhav! Risha wrote this when she was in 6th grade. Her story is called “Twinkle, Twinkle.” Enjoy! TWINKLE, TWINKLEBy Risha Jadhav Inspired by ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’ Twinkle,...
by inklings | Jan 4, 2022 | Meet the Mentors, The Ink Splat
For January’s Ink Splat, we spoke to Lisa Frenkel Riddiough about her books Elvis and the World as it Stands and Letters to Live By: An Alphabet Book with Intention. Lisa is one of our creative writing mentors here at Young Inklings and we are delighted to share...
by inklings | Dec 9, 2021 | News & Events
Sterling is a long-time creative writing mentorship student. He drafted his novel with the help of his mentor, Gwen, and is now embarking on a Your Name in Ink publishing project with a new mentor, Sonja. We talked to Sterling about his writing and his time at Society...
by inklings | Dec 8, 2021 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
As our publishing programs grew, Inklings mentor Beth Spencewood stepped in to take on the role of Director of Youth Publication Programs at Society of Young Inklings. We are so glad to have Beth on the team to shape and grow our Fresh Ink and Your Name in Ink...
by inklings | Dec 3, 2021 | News & Events
Inklings volunteer Kristi Wright has freely given her time and talents to many years of Inklings Book Contests. Each year, she mentors one of our contest winners through a revision-focused writing mentorship to get their winning piece ready for publication. In this...
by inklings | Dec 1, 2021 | The Ink Splat
For December’s Ink Splat, we spoke to Margaret Chiu Greanias about her picture book Amah Faraway which is written as a reverse poem. A reverse poem is a poem that can be read forwards to have one meaning and backwards to have another. Margaret talks to us more...
by inklings | Nov 29, 2021 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Meet Inklings Mentor and Drafting Workshop Head Teacher, Sonja Solter! Sonja 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...
