| Friday, April 11 |
| 9am |
Registration opens
[Highland Lakes Foyer]
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| 9:30am-noon |
Free 15-minute coaching sessions with experts in writing, editing, marketing. Sign ups required.
[Lake LBJ Room]
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| noon-1:45pm |
Optional Pre-Conference Workshop
(not included in your registration; extra fee for this workshop)
[Lake LBJ Room]
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| 12pm |
Exhibitors Room opens (hours: 12-4pm, 5:30-7:30pm)
[Guadalupe/Barton Creek Rooms]
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| 2-3:45pm |
Optional Pre-Conference Workshop
(not included in your registration; extra fee for this workshop)
[Lake LBJ Room]
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| 4-5pm |
Conference Welcome session: Judy Whelley, SCN President
[Lake Austin Room]
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| 5:30-7:30pm |
Dutch-treat dinner, Wyndham Hotel restaurant |
| 6pm |
Silent Auction opens
[Lady Bird Lake Room]
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| 7:30pm |
Sarton Memoir Award Presentation: Susan Wittig Albert & Paula Stallings Yost
Keynote Speech
, with Linda Hasselstrom
[Lake Austin Room]
(Dessert reception following; included in registration fee)
[Lady Bird Lake Room]
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| Saturday, April 12 |
| 8:30am |
Registration opens
[Highland Lakes Foyer]
|
| 8:30am |
Silent Auction opens
[Lady Bird Lake Room]
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| 8:30am |
Exhibitors Room opens (hours: 8:30am-12:30pm, 2-6pm)
[Guadalupe/Barton Creek Rooms]
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| 9-10:30am |
Session 1
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| 10:30-11am |
***Coffee/Tea Break***
[Highland Lakes Foyer]
The winner of our Sarton Women's Memoir Award will sign/sell her book.
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| 11am-12:30pm |
Session 2 |
| 12:30-2pm |
Lunch (included in registration fee)
[Highland Lakes Ballroom]
Entertainment: tba
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| 2-3:30pm |
***Free time & Special Sessions***
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| 3pm |
***Drinks & light refreshments***
[Highland Lakes Foyer]
The winner of our Sarton Women's Memoir Award will sign/sell her book.
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| 3:30-5pm |
Session 3 |
| 5:30pm |
Silent Auction closes
[Lady Bird Lake Room]
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| 5-8pm |
free time; Dutch-treat dinner, Wyndham Hotel restaurant and other nearby restaurants
We will have several "Special Interest" tables |
| 8-10pm |
After-dinner Open Mike: Storytelling from the Heart
[Lake Austin, Lake Travis, & Lake LBJ Rooms]
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| Sunday, April 13 |
| 9-10:30am |
Session 4 |
| 10:30-11am |
***Coffee/Tea Break***
[Highland Lakes Foyer]
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| 11am-12:30pm |
Session 5 |
| 12:30-2pm |
Lunch (included in registration fee)
[Highland Lakes Ballroom]
Speaker: , with Nancy Curtis
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Program
more details coming soon...
Saturday
Session 1: 9-10:30am
more details coming soon...
Session 2: 11am-12:30pm
more details coming soon...
Special Sessions: 2-3:30pm
more details coming soon...
Session 3: 3:30-5pm
more details coming soon...
Sunday
Session 4: 9-10:30am
more details coming soon...
Session 5: 11am-12:30pm
more details coming soon...
Story-Telling From the Heart: Open Mike
Saturday Night, Live,
in Austin Texas
It's Saturday night in Austin TX—what would you like to do after you've enjoyed a fine dinner at one of Austin's many great restaurants? Well, you might take in a film, or visit Austin's disco district (the River City is widely known as the Live Music Capital of the World).
Or we could all hang out together and swap stories.
Swap stories?
Hey, what a great idea! After all, isn't that what Story Circle is all about? And who has more stories to swap than women—women who have loved and laughed and cried and succeeded and failed and survived and, yes, triumphed! Creative, canny, crafty, clever, courageous women. Women who have lived ordinary, extraordinary, and sometimes downright outrageous lives!
So for Saturday night's entertainment, we offer you—ta da! (a flourish of trumpets and rattle of drums, please)—an open mike!
And all you have to bring is you, and your story. Maybe it's a piece you've already shared with your Story Circle, or a poem or two that you've just finished, or a short autobiographical fiction piece. Maybe it's a story to be sung, or danced (if you need music, let us know ahead of time). Or perhaps you'd like to bring a piece of art that you've made—pottery, painting, textile, whatever—and tell us how and why it is part of your story. The sky's the limit, gals, and the only thing we have to fear (as some famous man said once) is fear itself. So let's see how many different stories, and how many different ways to tell a story, we can all come up with.
To give each story-teller a chance to participate we will be dividing into three separate meeting rooms and will ask reader to limit her turn at the mike to five minutes including opening remarks. (Please note that it takes ONE minute to read ONE double-spaced page or to read ½ single spaced page and plan accordingly.) There are a limited number of spaces available, so sign up will begin Saturday after dinner and will end when all places have been reserved and Open Mike begins at 8pm. Whether you come to read, listen, share or all of the above, we look forward to seeing you there! And please bring a copy of your piece to post on the Story Wall—and plan to email it to us, as well, for sharing with the attendees!
Remember that wonderful '60s song that began "When you come to San Francisco, be sure and wear flowers in your hair"?
When you come to Austin, Texas, be sure to bring a story from your heart. We're eager to hear it, y'all!
*Session topics are still tentative.
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