Story Circle Online Classes

Programs & Activities: SCN Expands Its Online Program Our Fall Lineup Can't take a course now—maybe later? Interested in teaching an online class for SCN? Who We Are & How to Join Us Neat Stuff: True Words for Women Writers Kitchen Table Stories What Wildness is This Starting Points Contact us: programdirector@storycircleonlineclasses.org

SCN Expands Its Online Program

The Story Circle Network has expanded its online writing programs for women. This fall, we are offering five women-only classes, open to SCN members and non-members. Since 1997, SCN has offered courses and educational programs in writing circles, conferences, workshops, and online classes. We have offered learning opportunities in memoir, reminiscence, journaling, poetry, family stories, kitchen table stories, writing-as-healing, writing for personal growth and spiritual development, poetry, blogging, and others. 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. SCN is the only lifewriting program designed exclusively for women. For full class listings, faculty bios, enrollment, and more, visit our website.

Our Fall Lineup

Our Fall term begins September 15 and end November 10. We're offering five courses. Our online enrollment is easy and fast. But hurry. Enrollment in all classes is limited. "Personal Maps and Place as Story": Taught by Susan Wittig Albert, Ph.D., best-selling novelist, author of Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story A personal map is a representation of our personal understanding and awareness of the places we inhabit, based on our daily practices, life experiences, and cultural values. Whether our maps focus on the external geography (the physical reality of a place) or our inner geography (the way we feel about it), they help to clarify not only our understanding of a particular place and its local and larger contexts, but our changing relationship to it... more "Start Small Finish Big: From Memoir Vignette to Publication, Part One": Taught by Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett, co-authors of the award-winning Rosie's Daughters: The "First-Woman-to" Generation Tells Its Story Part One of this two-part course is designed to help you write your memoir by "starting small." Our class will cut that "book monster" down to size. Through a series of instructional videos, creative exercises, and writing assignments that use your own family photos, treasured mementos and even recipes as triggers to memory, you'll find your unique voice, and develop your personal style of expression. Then we'll help you "finish big" by showing you how to use the Internet to begin creating your own readership... more "Journaling by the Moonlight: A Woman's Path to Self-Discovery": Taught by Tina Games, writing coach, journaling teacher In this class, we will embark on an eight-week journey of self-discovery through journaling, one that leads toward a life of creative fulfillment. The moon can bring great comfort to women during challenging periods in their lives, particularly during times when they've felt a loss of personal identity. Working with the phases of the moon as a source of transformation, women who are facing major life transitions or who may be challenged by the loss of personal identity are gently guided on a path of self-discovery... more "Writing a Healing Memoir": Taught by Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., therapist and author of Don't Call Me Mother and Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story Writing a memoir is a powerful process of self-identity, healing, and integration. In this course (taught by a therapist who uses writing to heal), you will learn how to write a memoir that helps to heal, as well as create a meaningful story. We will work with the roles in the family that challenge the memoir writer; explore the "I" narrator and the "I" character; learn about emotional themes; discuss "what is truth"; write scenes that show more than tell in several turning point stories, and understand how to cope with both inner and outer critics... more "What to Keep: An Introduction to Memoir Writing": Taught by Robin Reger, journalist, editor, and writing teacher No one else's life has been exactly like yours. But your experiences are universal: everyone has felt the disappointment of a goal not realized, the joy of a new friendship, the love for a special someone, the delight in something new. In this course we'll examine how to choose from our life experiences to write a story that resonates with our readers. We'll consider our purpose for writing and focus on how to achieve that purpose. We'll practice editing and tightening for effect. And we'll have fun and all end up writing better... more

Can't take a course now—maybe later?

Our Winter Term classes will be offered January 19-March 16. Watch for our class listing, coming soon! And to continue to receive these informational emailings, please sign up for our newsletter.

Interested in teaching an online class for SCN?

We are looking for women teachers/writers who want to share their passion for lifewriting by working with women (SCN members and non-members) in classes carried out on the Internet and via email. If you are a skilled writer with experience 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.

Who We Are & How to Join Us

You don't have to be a member of Story Circle to enroll in our online classes, but we'd love to count you as one of our members. And there's a big plus! You'll save almost the cost of a membership by joining SCN and becoming eligible for a lower tuition. Our mission: The Story Circle Network is dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories. We carry out our mission through publications, a web site, classes, workshops, writing and reading circles, and woman-focused programs. Our activities empower women to tell their stories, discover their identities through their stories, and choose to be the authors of their own lives. Learn more about how SCN can help you tell your story on our Member Benefits web page. We offer our quarterly print Journal, a newsletter with features on women's lifewriting opportunities to publish your work workshops, classes, online courses writing circles an Internet Chapter Speaker's Bureau much more Membership categories: Member: $35; Canada & Mexico: $45; International $50 Supporter: $70 Sponsor: $125 Patron: $200 Benefactor: $400+ Internet Chapter membership: $18 (To join the Internet chapter you must also be a member of the national organization; chapter dues are in addition to the national dues.) To join, see our online membership form, or go to our web site & click on "Join SCN" in the "How to Join / Enroll / Pay" section of the left frame. You can pay online, or send a check to Story Circle Network, P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127

E-Letters

We publish three monthly e-Letters: This e-Letter brings you information about our upcoming online classes and workshops. The National e-Letter brings you writing tips, quotes, and book reviews. The Internet Chapter e-Letter is sent only to members of the Internet Chapter; it features chapter news and events. We appreciate your help in spreading the word about Story Circle Network. Please forward this e-Letter to anyone interested in lifewriting—family and friends, students, clients, members of your writing group. If a friend has forwarded this to you, add your e-address and click below to get your own subscription. To join any of our Story Circle Network e-Letter mailing lists, type your email address below, then click the 'Go' button: To unsubscribe: see link at the very bottom of this email.