Songs of Cheer

Hello, friends!

This week has been pretty exciting for the St Nicholas League! First off, we opened up paid subscriptions on Monday. Thank you SO MUCH to our first four amazing paid subscribers, you guys are the best!!

The next exciting thing is that my mom and I were interviewed by Cindy Rollins and Dawn Duran for the Mason Jar podcast last month to talk about St Nicholas Magazine. And yesterday our episode came out! If you want to learn more about how St Nicholas came to be, the process behind the magazine, and our new enterprise the St Nicholas League, you should definitely go listen to it. For some reason I can’t attach the link to the podcast itself but I can attach the note where I included the link to the podcast, so head on over and give it a listen! Be sure to tell me what you think ;)

And the last exciting St Nicholas League related thing that is happening this week is this post, which is my first one for paid subscribers!! This couldn’t have happened if not for all the support I’ve received from you amazing people, so THANK YOU!

For our first paid subscriber post, I’m including three absolutely gorgeous poems by Edith D Osborne which were first included in the June 1923 number of St Nicholas Magazine. Really, these poems are beautiful!! Daffodil Street and Buttercup Lane is so whimsical and fairy tale-esque, while A Seaside Garden is perfectly dreamy. A Song of Gladness is my favorite; I love poems that are simple, earnest, perfect, and full of vivid images, and this poem was all of those things!

Last thing — I’m thinking that once the St Nicholas League reaches a hundred subscribers, or ten paid subscribers, whichever comes first, we’ll have a short story contest! The winner will be published here! What do you all think?

Love,

Fiona