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Story Circle Network
...for women with stories to tell
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National e-Letter
January 2010, Vol. 5, No 1
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Stories From the Heart V
Feb 5-7, 2010
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Join us at the Austin Wyndham!
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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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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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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. To sample the artists who are sharing their wares, go here.
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Silent Auction
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At the conference, we'll hold an auction of unique, delightful treasures created by artists from across the country. The auction winners will take home something very special. We'll also be giving away door prizes at the Saturday and Sunday luncheons. Just to whet your appetite, we've posted descriptions, photographs, and artist bios for many of the items so you can learn more about them and about their creators. Want to donate to the auction (or to our great collection of door prizes? There's still time! Go here for details.
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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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The conference will be held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, just 3 miles from downtown. Austin is your headquarters for a Texas-style good time, so come early, stay longer. Give yourself time to enjoy a drive through the famous Texas Hill Country, a visit to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, museums and events at the University of Texas, the majestic Texas State Capitol, or a jog around Austin's Lady Bird Lake. Entertainment? Shopping? From Sixth Street's famous entertainment venues to the nightly upscale offerings of the Warehouse District to the eclectic shops on South Congress, Austin has something for everyone.
To get our hotel conference rate ($99/night plus tax, double occupancy), call the Wyndham directly (512-448-2444) and make your reservations no later than January 16. Room rate includes complimentary airport shuttle service, parking, and high speed wireless internet. Looking for a roommate? See our Roommates Wanted! web page.
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Works of Heart Marketplace
Barbara Carr will offer several books, including some in her Ancestor Series about her Native American Cherokee heritage, growing up in the South, Southwest and TX.
Helen Soto has always possessed a natural ability for jewelry, constructing beautiful necklaces, earrings and more, from precious and semi-precious stones and beads.
Jane Parsons offers hand-knitted scarves and hats, stationery bearing her photographs, postcards bearing her photographs, and small framed original photos.
Judy Fettman will offer various hand-made notecards from her own photography: nature, architecture, cats, whimsical.
Dawn Thurston will sell Breathe Life into Your Life Story: How to Write a Story People Will WANT to Read, published by Signature Books in July 2007.
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Wise Words from the Heart
"Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much a heart can hold."
—Zelda Fitzgerald
"I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried in my heart."
—Anne Frank
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/100107.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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