A Digital Platform Connecting Writers, Students, and Communities

The Short Story Portal is an affordable digital platform that empowers teachers, students, and local communities by showcasing creative writing. It inspires creativity, builds language skills, and connects emerging writers—whether in classrooms or neighborhoods—giving everyone a voice and fostering a vibrant culture of storytelling

• Challenge addressed: Educators and community leaders often seek simple ways to encourage creativity and highlight local voices.
• Solution: Short Édition’s web-based Short Story Portal is an affordable tool to curate, edit, and showcase creative writing from students and local writers.
• How it helps:
  • Provides a user-friendly platform to organize and present creative work, while offering an online reading experience - free for your readers!
  • Supports development of writing skills through publishing opportunities
  • Offers an outlet for self-expression within schools and communities while providing writers a platform to share their stories
• Impact: Helps bring local and student writing to a wider audience, supporting creativity and literacy in a straightforward, accessible way.

The Short Story Portal: The Brain Behind the Cube & Dispenser

With the Short Story Portal, our partners have full control over what readers discover. Configure your Short Story Dispenser or Cube with a wealth of content—choose from Short Édition’s curated collections, timeless classics, or your own original works. From bite‑sized short stories and poetry to engaging comics for all ages, the Portal makes it easy to tailor the reading experience to your community.

Customer Stories Say it Better

Showcase Student talent

Publication during lockdown

The Short Story Portal has enabled my library to provide hundreds short stories and comics to our students during a year when all students have been at home during lockdown. Our library has created monthly short story and art contests to provide library engagement around creative writing, with the sole prize of having winning entries published on the online portal and on our physical Short Story Dispenser. Dozens of students have participated in these contests, and students, staff, and parents have been thrilled to have these opportunities for both school engagement and… publication!

Kristen Lee,

Head Librarian Fletcher Middle School,
Palo Alto, California