The following story is by six-year-old Jean. If you have a budding writer under the age of 12 in your home, we’d love to read their stories. Submit them on Submittable through Fridge Flash form.
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The Safety Boxes
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Jean is from Kentucky and is going into the first grade. She enjoys: playing card games, hanging with out with her little sister, playing in her playhouse, and talking to her best friend Lea.
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A SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer.
As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop in small groups of around 15 writers, drafting to 3 writing tasks each week. Our peer-review workshop is all in writing, so you can participate from anywhere, anytime. This summer our writing tasks will be generative and thematically leaning towards community. Our theme this year: “The Global Flash Village”. Writing doesn’t have a be a game of Solitaire; it can be a team sport.
Our participants often say their writing has dramatically increased in community. A SmokeLong Summer 26 will take you around the world, introducing you to writers from every corner of our beautiful planet.