by inklings | Nov 18, 2021 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Meet Inklings Mentor Ty Chapman! Ty is a Twin Cities-based author, poet, puppeteer, and playwright of Nigerian and European descent. He is passionate about art that speaks to the Black experience in America. His recent accomplishments include being named a Loft...
by inklings | Nov 16, 2021 | News & Events
Meet Ayz! Ayz is one of our Youth Advisory Board members. The Inklings Youth Advisory Board helps support Young Inklings by serving as peer mentors in our Drafting Workshop, tackling projects, supporting the Inklings Book Contest, and sharing their ideas for the...
by inklings | Nov 12, 2021 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Meet Inklings Mentor and Mentor Advisor, Malar Ganapathiappan! As the 2021/2022 Mentor Advisor, Malar helps tend to the Inklings mentor team. Malar is a writer, writing mentor with Inklings, writing coach, and member of the SCBWI. She holds a bachelor’s degree in...
by inklings | Nov 11, 2021 | Meet the Mentors, News & Events
Inklings Mentor, Melissa Savage, is using her skills to help medically frail children and their siblings express themselves through creative writing. Her Hero Program, supported by Society of Young Inklings, provides mentorship and publication opportunities where...
by inklings | Nov 10, 2021 | News & Events, Publishing Opportunities, Written by Inklings
We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest published author, Sanjay Ravishankar! Sanjay recently published his trilogy, Draagonus Adventurus, through our Fresh Ink publishing program. In Fresh Ink, youth authors with a completed draft of a novel are mentored...
by inklings | Nov 9, 2021 | News & Events
Let’s say you were a bird on a tree, watching Jack trade his beloved cow for a handful of magic beans. Curious, you might have followed him home, only to see those beans fly out the window and into the garden. What if you stayed and watched those beans sprout...
by inklings | Nov 3, 2021 | The Ink Splat
For November’s Ink Splat, we spoke to Josh Roberts about his series The Witches of Willow Cove. Josh gives us some insights on writing every day and about writing from multiple points of view. Writing Challenge Author Josh Roberts tells us… As I write, I’m...
by inklings | Oct 25, 2021 | Prompts and Activities
One of our favorite games at Society of Young Inklings is Choices. We love it because there are no difficult rules. The only rule, in fact, is that you MUST make a choice. You’d think it would be easy to follow that rule but sometimes it’s actually quite...
by inklings | Oct 18, 2021 | News & Events, Publishing Opportunities, Written by Inklings
We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest published author, Aditi Dinesh! Aditi recently published her book, The Intelligence, through our Fresh Ink publishing program. In Fresh Ink, youth authors with a completed draft of a novel are mentored through a...
by inklings | Oct 12, 2021 | News & Events
On September 30th, the Drafting Workshop welcomed four fantastic sci-fi/fantasy authors for an event open to all. This panel of authors spoke about a wide range of topics and took questions from audience members. Why make rules for our story worlds? One of our lively...
