Helping Educators Build a Love of Reading and Writing
Our mission, as an international publishing house, is to help you engage students around literature, to spark creativity across classrooms: English, foreign language, and social studies. Short Edition offers so many random, quick bites of fiction and creative non-fiction, to help students learn to enjoy reading.
The idea of ‘creative idleness’ by reading for pleasure, can be a 1min, 3min, or 5min moment traveling through another story or realm. Because big ideas are often born in idle moments when reading a short story, poem, or comic strip.
Your school’s mission is also to invite culture in many different forms that seem conducive to Short Edition’s offer of free short literature to inspire all young, diverse creatives.
Our School Partners Say it Better:
SHOWCASE STUDENT TALENT
"I can do that too!"
We are delighted to have the Dispenser in our school. It gives our middle school writers the satisfaction of going through the entire writing process from brainstorming to revising to editing to actually publishing. One of our writers affirms that “pulling out your own story and seeing your name at the top - there is just nothing in the world like it.” Seeing their hard work literally in other people’s hands gives them a feeling of victory. What’s more, when students read well-written short pieces, it inspires them to say to themselves, “I can do that, too.”
Julie Forbes and Jennifer Pingrieux,
English & Creative Writing Teachers, American School of Paris Middle School, Paris, France
Showcase Student Talent
Inspiring Young Writers
Ellison, currently a high school sophmore writes “Ms. Lee, Back in seventh grade, you truly inspired me to pursue my passion for writing, and the library became my happy place. One of my favorite memories from Fletcher was participating in the short story contests, which sparked my love for storytelling. Through the Palo Alto Beacon, I hope to build on the creative spirit you nurtured by offering students even more freedom to express themselves through their art. Thank you for everything you did to inspire me and so many others!”
Since 2020, Fletcher Middle School’s Short Story Dispenser has offered students over 11,000 stories to enjoy, run 29 writing/ art contests, and published more than 6,380 student works — an incredible legacy of creativity which expands every year.
Kristen Lee,
Teacher Librarian Fletcher Middle School,
Palo Alto, California
Showcase Student talent
Playful, meaningful addition to the Library and classrooms
We are so pleased with the addition of the Short Story Cube at the Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School. It is a great addition to our library and classrooms. The length of the stories and genre selections make it a very popular choice for middle school students. The support from the company also needs to be recognized. They are professional, timely and responsive.
Susan Harris,
Principal,
Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School,
Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
Showcase student talent
Developing a love of reading, where access to books is scarce
We are delighted to be the very first school in the UK to have a Story Cube! It is inspiring young writers and even staff competitions are up and running. When the children realised that they could share their stories online with family and friends as well as then being chosen from the Cube they were amazed! One child explained that it had made them feel like a real author and that they would be inspired to write more!
The addition of the Story Cube at Temple Learning Academy has kick started writing for pleasure in all year groups which in turn has brought the writing process to life for our children!
Thank you to all the members of the Short Edition who have got us up and running with so much passion and support!
Stuart Huddleston,
Principal at Temple Learning Academy
Leeds, UK
Alex Clark,
Deputy Principal, Primary
And here are some of our innovative school partners:
