STORY CIRCLE NETWORK

AUSTIN E-LETTER

Vol. 1 Number 2
February 2000

• Internet Chapter

The Story Circle Network is excited to announce that we have just opened our new Internet Chapter, which will offer information and guidance for life-writers, articles and interviews, a place to publish your writing, a bulletin board and chat room, and on-line classes and workshops. The first of these is Susan Albert's six-week on-line "Writing From Life" Workshop. If you're interested in joining the Network, check out the Story Circle web site (www.storycircle.org). To learn more about the Internet Chapter (or to join!), click on "Internet Chapter".
 
• Be Our Guest: "Inspiring the Writer: Dreams and Active Imagination"

Maria Grace, Ph.D., L.P.C. will lead us into the exciting and rich arena of the unconscious, to gain access to a deeper part of our imaginations.  She comes to us with international experience in studying, teaching and practicing psychotherapy, and will demonstrate unique techniques to integrate art, relicious traditions and the psychology of the unconscious into our writing. Please join us for this FREE TO THE PUBLIC program on Sunday, February 27, from 3-5pm, in the Colorado Room of the LCRA complex, 3700 Lake Austin Blvd. For more information, click on "Be Our Guest!" on the Story Circle website.
 
• Viet Nam "Regret to Inform" event

KLRU-TV has invited Story Circle to participate in a project to gather the stories from women in the Austin area who lost loved ones during the Viet Nam war. This local effort will be filmed and broadcast as a prelude to the award-winning documentary, "Regret to Inform," a video memoir which chronicles one woman's journey through grief to resolution.  Mary Warren, a volunteer who was in one of the first OWL workshops, is gathering together her friends from the time they all worked together to bring home our MIA-POWs. Mary's husband was killed in 1966, and through her efforts to change the way our government reported MIAs, was finally able to bring home his remains in 1986. Our hopes are to hold special writing sessions for both American and Vietnamese women to capture these stories, and share them with the KLRU audience. If any of you out there can help us with this special project, please call Catherine Cogburn at the Story Circle office, 454-9833, or email at storycircle@storycircle.org. For more information, please see the "Regret to Inform" web site (http://www.pbs.org/pov/regret).
 
• Writing Circles

Katherine Benbow and Judith Helburn are now leading the Austin Chapter's Writing Circles and would like to invite you to join in. The circles provide a wonderful opportunity for you to share your writing with others in a caring, supportive environment and receive the encouragement that will help you to write more regularly. For more information, click on "Austin Chapter" on the Story Circle website, or send email to writingcircle@storycircle.org.

For the Story Circle Journal, we welcome your contributions of women's quotations, updates from your Story Circle, brief book reviews, and life-writing tips and ideas. Please email them to Susan Albert at susanalbert@storycircle.org.

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We are now publishing two monthly e-Letters. The National e-letter brings you writing tips, quotes, and book reviews, while the Austin-area e-Letter brings you news about Story Circle events and activities in the Austin, TX area. To subscribe to the National e-Letter, either go to http://SCN_eLetter_National.listbot.com and enter your email address, or send email to SCN_eLetter_National-subscribe@listbot.com

The Story Circle Network is an organization made up of women who want to explore their lives and their souls through life-writing -- writing that focuses on our personal experience, through memoirs and autobiographies, in diaries and journals, in personal essays, in poetry. The Network is chartered as a 501c(3) organization. Your dues and other contributions are tax-deductible. As a non-profit, we welcome your gifts to support our work. Please be generous!

Annual membership is $20. Members receive four issues of the Story Circle Journal, a 16-page quarterly filled with writing ideas, members' writing, interviews, articles, and book reviews. To join, fill out our on-line form (click on "Join SCN" on the Story Circle website) and send a check for $20 to

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