Story Circle Online Classes


The Story Circle Network has been offering classes, workshops, conferences, writing and reading circles, and online programs—all designed for women—since 1997.

Programs for Women
Our central program focus is writing about our lives—about women's lives. We have offered courses and educational programs (both as workshops and online classes) in memoir, reminiscence, journaling, poetry, family stories, kitchen table stories, writing-as-healing, place writing and nature writing, writing for personal growth and spiritual development, and poetry.

We teach general writing skills, organization, and critical editing, as well as technical skills in book design and development, online marketing, blogging, and other Internet-related activities.

We are expanding our course offerings so that more of our teaching work is available online, open to both members of the Story Circle Network and women non-members.

Faculty
Amber Starfire Our faculty members, all women, are experienced teachers and published writers with a special interest in helping women explore their lives. If you are a skilled writer who is experienced in teaching memoir, journaling, life-based fiction, and other lifewriting forms and are interested in joining our faculty, we'd like to hear from you.

Online Resources
We offer many resources to lifewriters. We also publish a regular e-letter, with information about our current online courses and other SCN activities (go here to subscribe).

Our Books
SCN is an active publisher of books, anthologies, a quarterly journal (The Story Circle Journal), and an annual anthology (True Words from Real Women: An Anthology of Story Circle Writings). Our published titles include:

What Wildness is This
What Wildness is This:
Women Write About the Southwest

(University of Texas Press, 2007)
With Courage and Common Sense
With Courage and Common Sense:
Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles

(University of Texas Press, 2003)
 
Kitchen Table Stories
Kitchen Table Stories
(2007)
Starting Points
Starting Points:
Weekly Writing Prompts
for Women with Stories to Tell

(2007)
Your Life, Your Story
Your Life, Your Story
(2001)

You will find a list of published SCN authors here. You'll find links to our SCN bloggers here.

Book Reviews, Podcasts, Contests, and More
In addition to its educational programs, SCN sponsors a women's book review website, editorial service, monthly podcasts, an annual lifewriting contest (open to members only), and biannual conferences: LifeLines Writing Retreat and our National Memoir Conference.

 

Fall, 2010 LifeWriting Classes
for Women

Memoir and Lifewriting:

Writing Through Transitions
(October 25-November 15, 2010)

Song of Home: Creating a Family Cookbook of Memories
(September 20-November 15, 2010)

Introductory Writing Family History
(September 20-October 25, 2010)

Intermediate Writing Family History
(September 20-October 25, 2010)

Advanced Writing Family History
(September 20-October 25, 2010)

Journaling, Dreaming:

Nighttime Illuminations
(September 20-October 11, 2010)

Journaling 101
(October 4-November 1, 2010)

Making Poems:

The Wonderful, Awful Stories She Had to Tell: Telling Stories Through Poetry
(September 20-October 25, 2010)

Holiday Tales: Telling Your Holiday Stories through Poetry
(October 25-November 15, 2010)

Sharpening Skills:

Freewriting: Gateway to Creativity
(September 21-October 19, 2010)

The Power of Writing Short: A Class in "Flash" Fiction/Memoir
(September 20-October 18, 2010)

Secrets of Personal Essay Writing
(September 20-October 25, 2010)

How to Revise and Edit Your Writing, Part 1
(September 20-October 11, 2010)

How to Revise and Edit Your Writing, Part 2
(October 18-November 8, 2010)


Winter, 2011:

Our next class schedule will be posted in November. Classes will run January 10-March 7, 2011





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