Story Circle Online Classes

We are now accepting proposals for these class terms:

July 16-September 10, 2012 (deadline May 25, 2012)
September 17-November 12, 2012 (deadline July 27, 2012)

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: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press, 2007)			With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles (University of Texas Press, 2003)

Kitchen Table Stories (2007)		Starting Points: Weekly Writing Prompts for Women with Stories to Tell (2007)		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.