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Story Circle Network
...for women with stories to tell
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National e-Letter
December 2009, Vol. 4, No 3
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Stories From the Heart V
Feb 5-7, 2010
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Matilda Butler & Kendra Bonnett
Writing with Heart
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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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Conference Volunteers
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Want to take on a responsibility that might actually be fun? One that directly affects SCN's ability to put on this phenomenal conference? Volunteers are being accepted now for our February 2010 Stories from the Heart V, SCN's fifth national women's memoir conference. Contact Jeanne Guy, this year's volunteer coordinator, to get your name on the roster of volunteers.
Assignments range from: working the vendor room, registration, sales, open mike, the story wall, scrapbook, evaluations, heart-to-heart coaching sessions, and that all encompassing duty known as floater. You'll be assigned a wonderful job and should be prepared to serve a mere two-hour shift. Assignments, times and contacts will be given to you in January.
Please contact Jeanne Guy by email, the earlier the better. We're making up our schedule NOW and we don't want to leave you out. So please volunteer before you forget it!
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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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Our Works of Heart Marketplace showcases books, paper products, print-related services, writing-related items, and many fabulous handcrafted items—such as Theresa May's original, limited-edition conference doll. To sample the artists who are sharing 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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To engage a reader's heart, you must write with heart. How do you know you've found the most heart-felt way to tell your story? Matilda's and Kendra's Writing Alchemy process will make this easy and natural. Join them for an afternoon of writing magic that will transform your writing process. Bring your idea for a memoir vignette, and you'll leave this pre-conference workshop with the start of a story with heart.
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Works of Heart Marketplace
Theresa May has been a costume designer, toy maker, miniaturist, performer, writer, and doll artist, when she's not publishing books at the University of Texas Press. She is a member of Central Texas Art Doll Sculptors and Texas Association of Original Doll Artists. She will design an original doll, in a limited edition of fifteen only, especially for the SCN Conference and will also have original jewelry and altered ornament dolls at her table.
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Wise Words from the Heart
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
—Maria Edgeworth
"The state of love is simply a state of joining within with another, heart to heart. It does not require a movement toward that person for satisfaction, for there is already joining present. When I meet you in my own heart, there is nowhere else to go."
—Paul Ferrini
Have a "heart" quotation to share? Email it to us, and we'll add it to our growing collection.
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E-Letters
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.
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To read this e-Letter on our web site, click here: www.storycircle.org/Conference/Newsletters/091211.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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