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A student recounts the heartbreak of losing a parent during the pandemic

A google slide set of photos and descriptions for a 7th grade student's experience during quarentine

Excerpts from a personal COVID journal kept starting April 1, 2020 so that my grandchildren would have a first-hand account of the experience of the pandemic. The entries describe the ways that life adjusted to deal with the lockdown and the…

Portrait posted to Instagram as part of the @mask_up_ri initiative created by StyleWeek Northeast (@styleweek), RMO Public Relations (@rmopublicrelations), Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (@goprovidence) and Rhode Island Commerce…

Portrait posted to Instagram as part of the @mask_up_ri initiative created by StyleWeek Northeast (@styleweek), RMO Public Relations (@rmopublicrelations), Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (@goprovidence) and Rhode Island Commerce…

“First and Second Contact”—science fiction short story.
“Brainwashed by Circumstance”—morality tale.
“Waiting for the Next Bus”—a conversation at a bus stop.
“To Lose is to Win”—poem about leaving Afghanistan

Two children wait with their father in a doorway.

Write Rhode Island’s COVID-19 flash non-fiction program Our Lives Now, a co-creation of School One and local authors Hester Kaplan and Taylor Polites, invites young people in grades 7 through 12 in the state of Rhode Island to submit a 400-word…

The pandemic prevented my family and I from being together, especially for very important events. This past summer, my cousin married the love of her life in Guatemala. She and I always talked about being in each other's wedding; to be each other's…