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Stories from the Heart IV
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Stories from the Heart IV is the fourth National Women's Memoir Conference, held in Austin TX Feb 1-3, 2008 and sponsored by the Story Circle Network. The conference will bring women from around the country to celebrate their stories. Join us as we welcome readers, writers, storytellers, and any woman with a past, present, and future.
See our conference website for more information.
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Program & Registration
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The conference program is designed to offer a wide selection of workshops, panel discussions, and presentations, all focussed on women's memoir. We want participants to learn how they can use personal narrative as a healing art, how they can gather and use their memories, and how they can tell their stories. See the program overview for more details. The complete program will be announced in September. Ready to register? That's easy—just go our online registration form.
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Call for Presenters
(deadline July 15)
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We're looking for presenters who have a deep interest in and commitment to personal writing and an expertise and experience they want to share. For details and easy on-line submission, go here.
Please note our request that all presenters submit their proposals by July 15.
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Call for Vendors
(deadline December 1)
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This conference will be a perfect opportunities to show off your wares! We welcome vendors (including small publishers) who would like to sell their own books, paper products, print-related services, writing-related items, and hand-crafted items of interest to women. For information and an on-line application form, go here.
Please note our request that all vendors submit their proposals by December 1.
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Women's Words from the Heart
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"When you open your heart, you open your mind."
~Beth Mende Conny~
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
~Helen Keller~
Have a "heart" quotation to share? Email it to us, and we'll add it to our growing collection.
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Who We Are & How to Join Us
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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.
If you're receiving this e-Letter but aren't a member, please join us.
[Learn more about how SCN can help you tell your story: click here, or go to our website & click on "How SCN Can Help You Tell Your Story" in the "Who We Are" section of the left frame.]
We offer
a quarterly newsletter with features on women's lifewriting
opportunities to publish your work
workshops, classes, on-line courses
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+
Chapter memberships:
(To join either chapter you must also be a member of the national organization; chapter dues are in addition to the national dues):
Austin Chapter: $18/yr
Internet Chapter: $18/yr
To join, click here, or go to our website & click on "Join SCN" in the "How to Join / Enroll / Pay" section of the left frame. You can pay on-line, or send a check to Story Circle Network, P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127
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Nancy Aronie
Keynote Speaker
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Our Friday-night keynote speaker, Nancy Slonim Aronie, has been a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, wrote a monthly column in McCall's magazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. She gives writing workshops and lectures at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Omega Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Wain-Wright House and The Open Center in New York City. She teaches at Harvard University.
See our conference program for more information.
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E-Letters
We publish three monthly e-Letters:
This National e-Letter brings you writing tips, quotes, and book reviews.
The Austin-area e-Letter brings you news about Story Circle events and activities in the Austin, TX area. If you don't live in Austin but want to know what the Austin Chapter is doing, you're welcome to subscribe as well—and copy all of our ideas for use in your own community!
The Internet Chapter e-Letter is sent only to members of the Internet Chapter; it features chapter news and events.
We also publish a quarterly e-Letter:
The OWL-Circle e-Letter brings you information and news about our Older Women's Legacy Circle project and activities.
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 unsubscribe: see link at the very bottom of this email.
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This e-Letter is a publication of the Story Circle Network, (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). It is provided free, via e-mail, for women interested in lifewriting worldwide. ©2007 Story Circle Network
Feel free to forward this e-Letter to friends and colleagues with appropriate credit to Story Circle Network.
This e-Letter is written and edited by Peggy Moody and Danelle Sasser.
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email: storycircle@storycircle.org
voice: 512-454-9833
web: www.storycircle.org
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