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Story Circle Network
...for women with stories to tell
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National e-Letter
November 2009, Vol. 4, No 2
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Stories From the Heart V
Feb 5-7, 2010
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Mary Gordon Spence
Sunday Luncheon Speaker
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Stories from the Heart V is the fifth National Women's Memoir Conference, held in Austin TX Feb 5-7, 2010, sponsored by the Story Circle Network. The conference will bring women from around the country to celebrate the stories of our lives and learn valuable lifewriting skills. Join us as we welcome readers, writers, storytellers, and any woman with a past, present, and future.
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Program & Registration
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The conference program offers a wide selection of workshops, panel discussions, and presentations, all focussed on women's memoir. Participants will learn how to use personal narrative as a healing art, how to gather and use their memories, and how to tell their lifestories. See the program overview for details. Ready to register? That's easy—just go to our online registration form.
See our conference website for more information.
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Heart-to-Heart Coaching
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Join us on Friday, Feb. 5, 10am-12pm, for our Heart-to-Heart mini-coaching sessions: free 15-minute conversations on writing, editing, marketing. Check out our list of helpful experts and their topics. Session signup list will open on Jan. 15, for those registered for the full conference only.
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Works of Heart Marketplace
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Artists, our conference is a perfect opportunity to show your work! We welcome vendors (including small publishers) who would like to sell books that they have written or published, paper products, print-related services, writing-related items, and handcrafted items of interest to women. For information and an on-line vendor application form, go here. To see a list of already-accepted vendors and their wares, go here.
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Open Mic
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If you have a piece of life writing to share, the Stories from the Heart Conference Open Mic is the perfect opportunity. Conference attendees are invited to bring a piece of their writing to read during "Open Mic," Saturday, February 6. Details here. Whether you come to read, listen, or share, we look forward to seeing you there!
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Help Us Fill Our Gift Bags
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It wouldn't be a conference without a gift bag, now, would it? We are accepting small items—soaps, lotions, tea bags, combs, mirrors, magnets, trinkets, note pads, pencils, pens, postcard-size advertising items, bookmarks—in lots of 50-125. These will be placed in our gift bags as take-home treats for conference-goers. Your item can be an advertisement for your work and can bear your name/logo and other advertising information; you don't have to attend the conference to have your item included. If you're interested, let us know what you'd like to donate and how many you can supply. Go here to give us the details.
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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.
We offer
- a quarterly 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. You can pay online, or send a check to Story Circle Network, P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127
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E-Letters
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We publish four monthly e-Letters:
- This National e-Letter brings you writing tips, quotes, and book reviews.
- The Story Circle Book Reviews e-Letter brings you information about our book reviews and book news.
- The Story Circle Online Classes e-Letter brings you information about our upcoming online classes and workshops.
- 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.
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Mary Gordon Spence, our Sunday lunch speaker, has taught kindergarten to college, written Texas history materials, drafted legislation, directed statewide environmental programs and worked for a former president and has been a magazine editor. Her storytelling, ukulele playing, wit and wisdom have been legendary throughout her career. Visit her website.
Read Lisa Shirah-Hiers' interview with Mary Gordon in the December issue of the Story Circle Journal.
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Works of Heart Marketplace
Meet Jeanne Henry, who will be offering her art work for sale at the conference. Jeanne is a quilter, writer and musician who sews purses, pillows, blankets and pillow cases as a fun Zen activity while listening to Hildegard of Bingen chants.
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Wise Words from the Heart
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
—Emily Dickinson
"In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow."
—Louise Driscoll
Have a "heart" quotation to share? Email it to us, and we'll add it to our growing collection.
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To read this e-Letter on our web site, click here: www.storycircle.org/Conference/Newsletters/091116.html
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. ©2009 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 & Susan Wittig Albert.
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email: storycircle@storycircle.org
voice: 512-454-9833
web: www.storycircle.org
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