Now Beginning Our 38th Year!
* We wish you all—including our readers and supporters—a wonderful International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10th!
Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on 10 December. It commemorates the anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It was signed in 1948.
Human Rights are POSITIVE
They not only protect, they also bring joy, happiness and safety into daily life. Human rights are lived realities. They are in the food we eat, the air we breathe, the words we speak, the opportunities we pursue or the protections that keep us safe.
Human Rights are ESSENTIAL
They are the essentials we all share, the common ground that unites us across differences of race, gender, belief, or background. In a world of uncertainty, human rights remain our everyday constants. When everything feels unstable, your right to safety, to speak freely and to participate in decisions that affect us, become the bedrock of our lives.
Human Rights are ATTAINABLE
They begin with us, with the small, everyday choices we make from treating others with respect, speaking up against unfairness, and listening to those whose voices are often ignored.
* Our 2026 Book Awards (deadline 3/2/26), 2026 Youth Honor Awards (deadline: 5/5/26) and 2026 Asian Celebration Haiku and Tanka Contest (deadline: 5/5/26) are now open and your entries are now being accepted. Check the Contests/Awards section for details.
* (Nov. 13) Let’s Celebrate the World Kindness Day today by choosing to do an act of kindness! And, if you get carried away and choose to act with kindness every day, more power to you! For example, on Thanksgiving Day, you can pardon the turkey before getting one (in absence of his presence)! Yours truly has been turkey-less and jerky-less for most of his life. At a recent well-attended Vegan Thanksgiving Celebration, we said our prayers for long life and happiness for the turkey. And, pardon me for suggesting this healthy lifestyle idea!!!
* Indigenous Peoples’ Day Greetings!
(Oct. 13): Columbus never really set foot in any area of the Americas that is now the United States! In 1492, when Columbus landed in what is known as the Bahamas, millions of Native people already living in the Americas! (See our special issue on the Native American Societies, Vol. 4, no. 3, released in Autumn 1992). The Vikings came to North America around the 11th century, about 500 years before Columbus! November is also celebrated as the Native American Heritage Month.
LATEST NEWS from Skipping Stones
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* (Sept. 5): Here is a digital file of our 2025 Awards Issue! We have sent out the issue to the winners, contributors, and subscribers on Friday the 22nd of August. (International contributors have been sent digital copies).
* Aug. 11: The 2025 Youth Honor Awards have been announced! Please click on the link above to see the winners. Please click here to read all the entries published. The 2025 Awards Issue is now at the printers.
* To celebrate our 37th year, we are offering 10 back issues for only $37 (US postage included), or 37 back issues for $100 (postage to US addresses included). Visit order Single/ back issues link.
* July 2025: The 2025 Book Awards Have Been Announced!
We are pleased to honor 25 recently published books in three different categories: Multicultural & International, Nature & Ecology, and Teaching Resources. Click to download the 2025 Honors List. We have just uploaded the reviews and you can download the 2025 Book Awards Reviews here. See the book awards announcement here! The 2025 Book awards have also been announced in our 2025 Awards Issue.
* June 2025: The Celebrate America Creative Writing Contest winners for 2025 have been announced. We’re pleased to share with you the winning entries. (Click here to download the file). To read the winning entries, click here: CACWC winners are also featured in the Sept.-Dec. 2025 issue released recently.
* May 2025: We are pleased to announce our special issue focusing exclusively on creative works by autistic non-speakers! You can read this web-only issue by clicking on:
Claiming Our Space: Voices of Autistic Nonspeakers
* Our March-August 2025 Issue features artwork by students and youth in Ukraine, South Korea and Gaza (Palestine), as well as many wonderful writings (poems, stories and more) by students from all over. Some of these were the 2024 Youth Honor Awards Noteworthy Entries that we were unable to include in our last issue for space reasons. You can download a low-rez file for our March-August 2025 issue. If you so desire, you can also order print copies here.
* Jan. 2025: We are pleased to announce our special issue on Gaza!
From Gaza to the World: Art and Writings by Palestinian Youth
* We are expanding! While our mission to focus on today’s youth remains unchanged, we’re now also accepting submissions geared for grown-ups. We invite your writings and art that will help parents, teachers, and grown-up friends of our younger readership. We have created a special section on the website: Content for Grown-ups. In this section, we will feature writings and art to help grown-ups make better choices in their and their family’s everyday life—health and wellness, social awareness, raising young ones and parenting, global issues, peace and justice, and nature/ecological protection, etc.
* The Awards 2024 issue (Vol. 36, no. 2) is now online for your reading pleasure. You can also order print copies here.
* The 2024 Book Awards!
Happy Summer Solstice! We are pleased to announce the 2024 Skipping Stones Book Awards! You can download a pdf file (8 Mb size) with reviews of all the 28 recommended books in our usual three categories here! We are working on reviewing the many entries for our 2024 Youth Honor Awards program. We expect to finalize our selection of youth entries in early August and publish the Awards Issue in late August.
Special Feature: View Ukrainian Children’s Art Essay published recently on our website.
Download our special feature on Peace in Palestine and Israel.
We are publishing two issues a year (Spring and Autumn issues) at present, and also adding online content in between the issues. Please DO NOT use our old post office box address for snail mail, it will not be delivered—use ONLY our street address: 166 W. 12th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97401 USA for all mailings and shippings.
About Skipping Stones:
A Multicultural Literary Magazine
Founded in 1988, Skipping Stones is a timely and timeless, award-winning resource in multicultural and global education. We welcome your original art and writings in every language and from all ages.
In a typical issue of Skipping Stones, you will find poems, stories, articles, and photos from a region of the world, an ecosystem, and/or a culture. In this leading multicultural magazine, you can read thought-provoking writings by students as well as educators. Each issue features book recommendations, noteworthy news, and articles appropriate for both parents and teachers. Submissions are read by multiple reviewers before their publication so as to assure high quality content.
Skipping Stones is an international magazine. We celebrate ecological and cultural diversity, and facilitate a meaningful exchange of ideas and experiences. Readers and contributors of Skipping Stones, ages 8 to 17, and their educators, hail from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Youth respond to the world through Skipping Stones. We try to make the reading of Skipping Stones an active experience, relevant to issues confronting our readers locally and globally. Our contributors and readers come from many countries. From villages to inner cities, youth have something to say about their culture and religion, environment and neighborhood, or communities and school, and Skipping Stones provides a forum for sharing it. Any way they choose to express their dreams and opinions, we provide a place for writers and artists of all ages and backgrounds to communicate creatively and openly.
We invite you to participate in this exciting forum, now beginning its 36th year, with your submissions, subscriptions, suggestions, and support. Are you an educator—parent, teacher or a librarian? You might entice your students (or children) to send their best creations for our regular issues or annual awards. Make the magazine a showcase for your students’ creative work. Skipping Stones welcomes art and original writings in many languages and from all ages.
Our most recent issue featured winners of the 2023 Youth Awards, the annual Asian Celebration Haiku/Tanka Contest, as well as a national creative writing contest for fifth graders (organized by the American Immigration Council) on the theme that America is a nation of Immigrants, and our annual recommendations of multicultural and nature books for all ages.
We continue to add new online content in between issues. We invite you to visit our website often to check out the poems, stories, art, and essays. Reading our digital content is absolutely free. Visit as often as you can!
As a tax-exempt, nonprofit, educational, and charitable organization, we rely on grants and donations from foundations and individuals to continue our educational and charitable work and to send free books, magazine subscriptions and back issues to low-income schools, organizations, and families. There are no commercial advertisements on our pages.
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Isak on top of Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. Photo by Paul Dix, Oregon