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    📚 Beyond The Lines: Asia Teens Book Club

    Elaine and Keziah, Editors of The Blue Bell Review

    Introducing Beyond the Lines: Asia Teens Book Club

    About Stone Soup

    StoneSoup.com, the web portal by and for young writers and artists. Here, young minds explore, create, and share their talents in a vibrant interactive space.

    As founders and editors of The Blue Bell Review, we are dedicated not only to publishing great work but also to supporting the global community of young writers and readers.

    So, we are sharing details about the Book Club, we (Keziah and Elaine) launched, along with the rest of the Stone Soup Book Club Committee for teens based in Asia— it's called Beyond the Lines: Asia Teens Book Club and we welcome tweens and teens aged 11–16 to come and join us for fun, bookish sessions. We will contemplate, question, criticise… and have fun!

    This book club is for those of you who are in Asian time zones. But, of course, if you're not in Asia and able to join us, we welcome you here!

    Meeting Details

    We will meet online on the last Sunday of the month, at 1PM IST / 3.30PM SGT and go on for one and a half hours. During this time, we will have deep discussions about a book, enjoy fun activities, and hopefully everyone will have an hour or two of bookish fun!

    Beyond the Lines Book Club Poster

    How to Join

    Please refer to the poster and video attached for more information. You can sign up through this Google Form: https://forms.gle/hrpAW9Fur7Z4zLSNA

    Our First Session

    For our first session, scheduled for Jan 2026, our theme will be Fantasy.

    Please feel free to nominate books for us to discuss via this form: https://forms.gle/zAe3fr9cYR8JVinz7 The committee will go through the nominations and choose a book that we think will be intriguing and fun to discuss.

    Publishing Opportunities

    We also plan to post book reviews and other bookish tidbits on the Stone Soup website: this will be an opportunity for you to see your work published! More on that very soon.

    Other Time Zones

    If these timings don't work for you because you are in a different time zone, don't worry! The Stone Soup Book Club committee is working hard to share a US Book Club, which will be for those of you in the US and nearby. As we grow and expand, we'll try to have even more sessions across different time zones.

    Thank you.

    -Elaine and Keziah,
    Editors, The Blue Bell Review