Lifewriters write for all sorts of reasons—to gain clarity on difficult emotional issues, to share challenging life situations, to help others who find themselves in similar situations, to pass along their life experiences and learnings to family and friends. In recent years, members of Story Circle Network have found more and more opportunities for publishing the stories, poetry, and drama that they have polished in Story Circle writing circles, classes, and workshops. Here is a partial list of their publications.
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| Diana Raab's book, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal, was recently named winner of the 2008 Indie Excellence Book Award. |
—05/08/08 |
| Jerry Kalajian of IPG, on behalf of Anne McDermid & Associates, has arranged a film option for Heather Summerhayes Cariou's best-selling Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir, a literary memoir about life with a sister diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, with Unbelievable Productions, Eva (Desperate Housewives) Longoria's production company. Watch a video here. |
—05/06/08 |
The 04/19/2008 Charlotte Observer featured Robin Edgar:
Writer explores healing power of reminiscence: Robin Edgar hosts a women's story circle Monday. |
—04/12/08 |
| Jazz Jaeschke again this year has a poem published in the Austin International Poetry Festival anthology, di-verse-city 2008. |
—04/12/08 |
| Linda Wisniewski's new memoir, Off Kilter, was published on April 1 by Pearlsong Press. Maureen Murdock (Unreliable Truths) calls it "A courageous, insightful book, particularly relevant for anyone who grew up feeling physically 'different.'" Read two reviews: Patricia Pando and Duffie Bart. |
—03/29/08 |
| Nightshade, the latest in Susan Albert's popular China Bayles series, will be published on April 1. The book is an Alternate Selection of the Mystery Guild. Susan's memoir, Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, has been accepted by the University of Texas Press for publication in Fall, 2009. |
—03/29/08 |
| Paullette MacDougal's short play, Bloomingdale's Elephants, has been chosen for a full production at the Six Women Play Festival in Manitou Springs, CO in April. Paullette has also been informed that another short play, One Good Moment, is an alternative selection for the plays to be performed at the national convention of ATHE (American Theatre in Education) this summer in Denver. |
—03/02/08 |
| Betsy Kelleher's second book, MARES! (Ya Gotta LOVE 'em): Fifty Stories to Aid and Inspire Mare Owners, was published in January, 2008 by Xulon Press. Stories by 39 horse owners share how mares have touched their owner's lives in special ways plus offering help to cope with that unpopular equine female nature. It is available on amazon.com and other internet sites as well as most bookstores. Signed copies available from the author through her website, which also features her monthly columns and her first book, Sometimes a Woman Needs a Horse (click to read SCN's book review). |
—02/29/08 |
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Jackie Newman, president of Redline Inc., Austin, Texas, received the Len Stolk Memorial Special Achievement Award at the 2008 National Auto Glass Conference in Tuscon Feb. 13. Writer and editor of the Repair of Laminated Automotive Glass Standard, Newman was instrumental in creating the multi-module windshield repair technician training programs on myglassclass.com.
Newman is the first woman to receive the award, presented annually to individuals whose business ethics and professional conduct reflect the best of the U.S. auto glass industry. |
—02/20/08 |
| Heather Summerhayes Cariou's newly released book, Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir, won Best Memoir 2007 at Books & Authors.net and will be available in Target Stores as a Featured Pick in March 2008. |
—02/04/08 |
| Marlene Samuels' short story entitled "My Father's Number" was selected as the winner of the Memories Writing Contest. |
—02/02/08 |
| Suzanne Mitchell had a piece published in the Outlook section of the 01/27/2008 Houston Chronicle. Suzanne says it was "a little essay that I wrote 'for fun' after going to a party in a very cool house." |
—01/28/08 |
| Duffie Bart's book reviews published online at the SCN's Book Review site, as well as her occasional essay pieces, are also published by the weekly newspaper Good Times out of Santa Cruz and actually being paid for them... quite rare and wonderful! |
—01/22/08 |
| Linda Austin's book, Cherry Blossoms in Twilight: Memories of a Japanese Girl, was published in August. It is "a fascinating true story of another culture, another era, another perspective. Learn about life in a small town outside Tokyo during the Depression and WWII through the eyes of a young girl... how did she survive, and who wanted this war anyway? Ms. Sugama Weldon has shared in wonderful detail the culture and stories of her life in Japan. Settle into a quiet corner to read this delightful, moving, and educational little book from start to finish. A rare Japanese memoir the whole family can enjoy." |
—01/22/08 |
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Diana Raab, MFA, will be moderating a panel at the 2008 AWP Conference in NYC at 1:30pm on February 1st. The panel is called "The Personal Narrative: The Art and Health of It," and her panelists include Phillip Lopate, Molly Peacock, Mindy Morris, Kyoko Mori and Michael Steinberg.
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—01/02/08 |
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Janet Caplan's holiday story, "Hanukah Harry" has just been published in a new anthology entitled Holiday Writes, edited by Betty Dobson and published by InkSpotter Publishing. The book which includes stories, poetry and essays on all sorts of holiday traditions is available through lulu.com.
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—12/15/07 |
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Margaret Baacke's book, Tainted Blood? Memoir of a Part Jewish Girl in the Third Reich l933-1945, was published in September, 2007.
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—12/14/07 |
| Marsha Brandsdorfer self-published her book, The Accidental Secretary, through "Xlibris" in September. Marsha tells us this: "I spent about 3½ years writing, revising and editing my book and it just came out in mid-September. I still work as a legal secretary, but I wrote my book because I've been doing this over two decades and I had so many different experiences, I just felt like sharing and memorializing them." |
—12/10/07 |
| Sharon Blumberg had an article published in the December 2007 issue of Fate Magazine under "True Mystic Experiences." It is entitled "Mysterious Encounters of the Generous Kind." Sharon tells us this: "It is about unusual but positive experiences, when I was at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana for the summer. I had just broken up with my fiance, and a number of 'signs' indicated that, that was the right decision to make. This was in 1978." |
—12/08/07 |
| Linda Wisniewski's short memoir, Pine Lake, was published in Ducts.org, the Webzine of Personal Stories, Issue 26. Linda's upcoming book, Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage, will be published in April, 2008 by Pearlsong Press. |
—12/07/07 |
| Linda Reynolds' and Joy Goodale's book, Butterflies Don't Sting (a murder mystery) has been published by Vantage Press. It is available on BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com. |
—12/03/07 |
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Edwina Carr-Jangarathis' book, In Their Own Words: Memoirs of the Members of St. George Greek Orthodox Church, has been published by Soleil Lifestory Network. It is a moving collection of personal and family stories. In Their Own Words chronicles the immigrant history of one of New Hampshire's most vibrant communities. With courage and customs in hand, a generation left it's homeland bringing with it a wealth of ways centered on family and church.
An all American story that enlivens core values of faith and tradition with portraits of intrepid individuals, this book is a multi-generational celebration of the rich and diverse past that informs our future. The book is available from the author; see her website for details. |
—11/21/07 |
| Cindy Bellinger won two first places in the 2007 New Mexico Book Awards. Journaling for Women: Write, Doodle, Scribble! and Meet Yourself Up Close won in the self-help category. Waterwise Garden Care won in the gardening category. |
—11/16/07 |
| Diana Raab's book Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal was published in September by Beaufort Books; it is available on amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and bookstores everywhere. Her poetry chapbook, My Muse Undresses Me, is available from the author; see her website for details. |
—11/12/07 |
| Janet Riehl's book Sightlines: A Poet's Diary recently won an honorable mention in the DIY (Do It Yourself) Book Festival. Janet also has pieces published in two anthologies: Stories to Live By: Wisdom to Help Us Make the most of Every Day and Hot Flashes 2: more sexy little stories and poems. |
—11/01/07 |
| Janet Caplan's story, "Crown Royal and Happy Days", was just published in the November issue of Canadian Stories, a magazine featuring stories by and about Canadians. |
—10/02/07 |
| Sharon Blumberg had an article published in the September issue of Country Extra. It is a magazine for those who live or yearn for the country atmosphere. It was about a country shop owner. |
—10/01/07 |
| Linda Wisniewski won first place in the Mom Writer's Literary Magazine Summer 2007 Short Fiction Contest. Go here to read her story. |
—09/24/07 |
| Linda Wisniewski's book, Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage, will be published by Pearlsong Press in April, 2008. Read more about it on the Pearlsong Press web site. |
—09/16/07 |
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Alyce Guynn's poem, "Scarlet Ribbons" appears in the Summer 2007 issue of The Seventh Quarry Swansea Poetry Magazine, published in Swansea, Wales and edited by Peter Thabit Jones. In addition to publishing Ms. Guynn's poem, Mr. Jones also features her book Deal Me In, illustrated by Jesse Taylor, in the "Books and Magazines" section of the literary journal. Also featured in this section is a book by Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas.
Copies of this Issue Six of Seventh Quarry may be ordered from Seventh Quarry Press, Dan-y-bryn, 74 Cwm Level Rd, Brynhyfryd, Swansea, SA5 9DY, Wales for $10 (International Money Order). The book, Deal Me In, is available from Pearson Publishing Company in Corpus Christi, Texas, or from amazon.com. |
—09/04/07 |
| Susan Wittig Albert's novel Bleeding Hearts was recently selected as a finalist in the Contemporary Fiction category for the Willa Award. The award is given annually by Women Writing the West. |
—08/29/07 |
| Robin Edgar is one of the keynote speakers at the Midwest Regional Conference on End of Life Care, October 29-30, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel-Crown Center in Kansas City, MO. |
—08/27/07 |
| The St. Louis Post Dispatch featured an article on Sherri Stanczak on Aug. 20, 2007. |
—08/27/07 |
| Carolyn Blankenship's story, "Trouble on the Hoof", was published in A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers, edited by Colleen Sell. The book can be purchased on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble. |
—08/23/07 |
| Marlene Samuels received an honorable mention in the Richard Hugo House's "Life During Wartime" Creative Nonfiction Competition for her story entitled "Sorrel Summer". |
—07/28/07 |
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Sharon Lippincott's book, The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing, was published by Lighthouse Point Press in July, 2007. Sharon encourages writers to preserve their personal histories for posterity. The book covers both the "heart" of writing—getting the story onto paper—and the "craft"—editing and organizational techniques that make a good story great. She equips readers with effective methods and insightful tips to help them create meaningful stories and collections that family members, friends, and future generations—not to mention writers themselves—will treasure.
Sharon's story, "Too Old for Ice Cream", appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on 8/19/2007. |
—07/26/07 (updated 08/20/07) |
| Amy Gorman's book, Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105, was published last year. Amy tells us this: "My goal is to convey positive images of our elder women, people living actively and in the moment, not without troubles of their own, plenty of difficulties and sickness, but with resilience. They are magnificent positive role models for the rest of us." The book is a Bronze Medal winner in the 2007 Independent Publishing Book Awards, category of Women's Issues. |
—07/01/07 |
| What Wildness is This now has its own blog! Contributors to SCN's new nature anthology are blogging about the landscape, place, and the way place affects our lives. Visit and bookmark their community blog. |
—06/25/07 |
| Sherri Stanczak's book, From the Heart of a Mother, was published earlier this year. "I started writing when I had my first son. Being a stay-home mom with three boys gave me a lot to write about. Even though they kept me very busy, I still found time to jot down a few things that they did. When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and then went through my divorce, I was given even more to write about. In a house with a single mom and three boys, there was never a dull moment. Somehow, we all survived. To me, I have a success story. Living with an illness is a rough battle. Luckily, I didn't have to go through it alone. I had my boys. We have all went through a lot. However, when we reminisce about the past, we only remember the good things. Everything I have written about my boys is straight from my heart—a mother's heart." |
—06/04/07 |
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Cindy Bellinger's book, Journaling for Women: Write, Doodle, Scribble! and Meet Yourself Up Close, has just been published. Cindy tells us, "I just love my journaling book. I've kept a journal for 47 years, since age ten, and began teaching journal writing in 1974. The first draft of this book (on a typewriter!) was finished in 1982. Two years ago I met Jim Smith, the publisher of Sunstone Press and he wanted to see some manuscripts. Naturally, I showed him my journaling book. We struck a deal; and I dove into rewriting, bringing the book up to date—and now it's finally here."
Cindy has a booksigning on Friday, July 6 from 10am-noon at the Bank of Pecos. She will sign her new book as well as her other 2 books: Someone Stole My Outhouse & Waterwise Garden Care. Join Cindy at a publishing party at 304 Calle Oso, Santa Fe NM, on Sunday, July 15 from 5-7pm. WordHarvest Workshops is hosting a booksigning and reception in a private Santa Fe home for Cindy and two other authors, Tom Claffey and Deborah "Bam" Schildkraut. Each will give a brief talk about their books at 6pm. Light snacks and drinks provided. For more information, see Cindy's web site. |
—07/01/07 |
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Seven contributors to What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest will read from and discuss their work on Saturday, June 16, 4pm, at Vromans Books, 695 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA. The readers: Janie Fried, Julia Gibson, Penelope Moffet, Sandra Ramos O'Briant, Lisa Swanstrom, Nancy Ellis Taylor, Marie Unini.
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—05/07/07 |
| Jazz Jaeschke's poem "Herbal Transport" (shared earlier in 2007 with the Internet Chapter's writing e-circle #4) has been published in Di-Verse City 2007, the Austin International Poetry Festival anthology. |
—05/01/07 |
| Four contributors to What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest will read from and discuss their work on Saturday, May 19 at Caffe Tazza, Taos NM. The readers: Cindy Bellinger, Janie Fried, Julia Gibson, Judith Ann Isaacs. |
—04/18/07 |
| Three of Arlene Howard's stories were in The Desert Woman last year: "The Sabbatical," April 2006, "Reconnecting," August-September 2006, and "Running Out of Tape," November 2006. Beginning in January 2007, she has written a monthly travel column, "Desert Destinations" for The Desert Woman. The column features places to visit in the Palm Springs-Coachella Valley area. The column places an emphasis on the historical background of the place to visit. "The Indian Canyons" is featured in the April 2007 issue; "Moorten Botanical Garden" is featured in the May 2007 column. |
—04/17/07 |
| Marlene Samuels' website has been redone and launched. It's a gourmet cooking website with the basic philosophy of "Gourmet Treatments for the Un-Spoiled". With her partner, Nancy, they have published articles in ReadyMade Magazine and had a piece in the Chicago Tribune food section entitled, "Wait, Wait, Don't Toss That Out". Their site asks for challenges from readers so they can create treatments. In addition, they have a nice selection of problem solvers rated for ease or preparation. Marlene says, "I'd welcome any info posted and everyone to visit the site and posed a cooking challenge to us." |
—04/09/07 |
| Georgia Hubley's story, "A Perfect Fit" appears in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating Mothers and Daughters, released March 2007. Her story, "Monday Morning Blues" appears in Chicken Soup for the Dieter's Soul, released January 2007. "Not a Creature Was Stirring?", a Christmas memoir, was published in the Christian Science Monitor, on the Home Forum Page in the 12/22/06 edition. |
—03/30/07 |
| Marlene Samuels' story entitled "Sorrel Summer" was chosen as best story of the month and awarded a prize on the site www.ourecho.com. She has another story entitled "My Father's Number" published there as well. |
—03/30/07 |
| Marlys Marshall Styne's book, Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor, published in 2006, won first place in the Biography/Autobiography category of the Illinois Woman's Press Association's Mate E. Palmer Communication contest. She will receive her award at the May, 2007, IWPA awards luncheon in Chicago. |
—03/30/07 |
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The Austin Chapter of the Story Circle Network will celebrate the publication of What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest, with a program of readings from the book, led by Susan Wittig Albert. The event, part of the chapter's Be Our Guest program, will take place at the LCRA Colorado Room, 3700 Lake Austin Blvd, Austin TX, on March 25, 2-4pm.
What Wildness is This, recently published by the University of Texas, is a significant new collection of nature writings celebrating women's experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. The book is a part of the Southwestern Writers Collection, an archive and literary center at Texas State University, and was sponsored by the Story Circle Network. Contributors reading and discussing their work include Carol Fox, Susan Hanson, Lianne Mercer, Donna Marie Miller, PJ Pierce, Lisa Shirah-Hiers, Mary Bryan Stafford, and Jackie Woolley. The book sale that follows the readings will benefit the Story Circle Network. The program is free and open to the public. |
—03/12/07 |
Contributors to What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest will read from and discuss their work at two locations in the Tucson area:
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—03/12/07 |
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Contributors sign What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest, Saturday, March 24 at 2pm at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore, 11975 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles CA.
How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly 300 women responded. Meet some of those contributors this afternoon: Janie Fried, Julia Gibson, Penelope Moffet, Sandra Ramos O'Briant, Nancy Ellis Taylor, and Marie Unini. |
—03/12/07 |
| Linda C. Wisniewski's memoir, "My Grandfather's Ear," is in the March issue of Toasted Cheese, an online literary zine. To read the story, go to: www.toasted-cheese.com/ezine.htm. |
—03/05/07 |
| Story Circle's latest anthology, What Wildness is This has just been published by the University of Texas Press. This unique collection demonstrates and illuminates the rich diversity of environments of the Southwest, as well as the extraordinary range of women's voices and women's experiences of the land. It is made up of a variety of literary forms—memoir, creative non-fiction, essay, poetry—and includes pieces by both emerging and established writers. Congratulations, kudos, and wild applause to all the SCN writers whose work appears in this collection! We're very proud of you—and of Story Circle itself. Without this organization, this book could never have come into being. Contributors will read and discuss their work at the Austin Chapter's Be Our Guest program on March 25, and the book will be celebrated at a conference co-hosted by SCN and the Southwest Writers Collection at Texas State University, "A Land Full of Stories". |
—02/28/07 |
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Native Texan Sandra "Sam" Pinkerton of Cedar Rapids, Iowa is giving a presentation titled "Cowgirls" at Beems Auditorium on January 20, 2007 at 10:30am. Sam tells us, "...Story Circle has been instrumental in my 'coming out' as a storyteller...I am blessed indeed to have come here. It is, undoubtedly, the most awesome story circle I have ever experienced."
Sam Pinkerton grew up around cowboys and has experience participating in rodeos. From her earliest years she heard stories about the settling of the West from her great-grandmother who was an early settler in Texas and her great-grandfather who was a Texas Ranger. Sam will come dressed in colorful cowboy garb and explain how each item of dress is actually very practical and useful for the cowboy. She is the author of "On the Yellow Line," a short story that appeared in Lost Soles. |
—01/06/07 |
SCN December Podcast
To listen to Story Circle Network's December podcast (Becca Taylor interviews Susan Albert; Bee Jay Gwennap reads her Story of the Month piece), go here: scn.libsyn.org. If you have ideas for stories or interviews, if you have suggestions for improvement, or if you just have a question on how a podcast works, let us know! All you have to do is send an e-mail to podcast@storycircle.org. |
—12/31/06 |
| Penny Leisch's story, "Honey", about a very special horse that helped her through a difficult time, will be released in February 2007. It appears in an anthology published by Adams Media. The title is The Healing Touch of Horses: True Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Transformative Power of the Human/Equine Bond by Dawn Prince-Hughes (Foreword), A. Bronwyn Llewellyn (Editor), and Cynthia Ruiz (Introduction). |
—12/22/06 |
| Marie Buckley's poetry has been published by Media Weavers in a new book, Quartet: four poetic voices. Marie tells us, "The book came from the critique group I've been in for about three years now. Each of us put together approximately 25 of her poems." |
—12/20/06 |
| Janet Caplan's piece entitled "A Fifties Saturday Night" was just posted in the "Our Voices" section of Boomer Women Speak website. It appears under the heading "Born in the USA - Childhood Memories". |
—11/30/06 |
| Ten members of Robin Edgar's Charlotte story Circle, "The Red Tent Society," had their holiday memories published in the magazine, Today's Charlotte Woman. As one of the prompts for her story circle, Edgar asked those present to recall and record significant memories about the holidays that centered around a certain object. Their stories about tablecloths, Christmas gifts and tree ornaments, holiday china, and more were included in an article called "Things Remembered" that was published in the 2006 November/December issue. |
—11/30/06 |
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SCN November Podcast
To listen to Story Circle Network's November podcast (Becca Taylor interviews Joyce Boatright; Beverly Galante reads her Story of the Month piece), go here: scn.libsyn.org. If you have ideas for stories or interviews, if you have suggestions for improvement, or if you just have a question on how a podcast works, let us know! All you have to do is send an e-mail to podcast@storycircle.org. |
—10/31/06 |
| Linda Wisniewski's article, "Female Banana Packers Gain Grounding in Rights", writen in memory of her mother, was published in Women's e-News. |
—11/25/06 |
| Theresa May's poem, "Transitions", was accepted for the winter issue of the Austin literary magazine, Farfelu. |
—11/20/06 |
| Mary Jo Doig's piece, "Spiritual Beauty," was published in The Senior Voice in June (read the June issue here [pdf file]). ). This was a special publication for Mary Jo because she was contacted by the publisher and contracted to write a piece on the paper's theme for that month of Beauty and Aging. |
—11/01/06 |
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SCN Podcast!
In SCN's Internet Chapter members share their stories via e-mail every day. Now, thanks to the talents of SCN member Becca Taylor (thanks, Becca!), we all have a chance to listen to chapter members tell their stories, via SCN's brand-new podcast! Our podcast will include at least one Story Circle Network member reading her story (usually our Internet Chapter's Story of the Month winner), plus songs, musings, and interviews to help you on your way to fulfillment in your own personal writing. To listen to our first Story Circle Network podcast, and hear our July (Susan Ideus) and September (Katherine Gannett) Story of the Month winners read their selections, go here: scn.libsyn.org. If you have ideas for stories or interviews, if you have suggestions for improvement, or if you just have a question on how a podcast works, let us know! All you have to do is send an e-mail to podcast@storycircle.org. |
—10/31/06 |
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SCN recently entered Community TechKnowledge's 5-7-5 Haiku Grant contest, in which participants were asked to submit a haiku that described their organization. Carolyn Blankenship wrote the haiku that SCN submitted, and it won 11th place! We are very proud of her work, and share it with you here:
Heads bent, stories pour |
—10/30/06 |
| Lee Ambrose's poem, "Finding Normal" was one of the finalists in the recent Poetic Idol contest at Artella. |
—10/18/06 |
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Marlene Samuels is the editor and co-author of her mother's memoir entitled The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival (Berkley Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 0425166309). It's avaliable quite readily at major booksellers as well as on-line at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, Powells Books, Walmart, and other on-line booksellers.
In addition, Marlene has several pieces published in journals:
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—10/17/06, 01/04/07 |
| Stirring up memories all the times, a collection of Patricia Pando's columns featuring recollections and recipes of the people of Southwest Georgia and appearing in the Bainbridge, Georgia Post-Searchlight will be published in November. To order, contact Patricia. To read her columns, see her website: www.stirringupmemories.com. |
—10/11/06 |
| Doris Anne Roop-Benner of Richardson, TX had her story published in the September/October 2006 issue of the I Love Cats magazine. "Mouse Surprise" is about her precious Siamese cat with whom she shared 20 years of her life. Doris found the I Love Cats magazine submission information on SCN's Life Writers' Market Watch page. |
—10/09/06 |
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Writers: Write from the Heart! Have your work read on Sirius Satellite Radio: "Writing From The Heart" with Nancy Slonim Aronie.
"Writing from the Heart" is based on the workshops given by Nancy Slonim Aronie around the country for more than 18 years. "I don't teach writing. I just make it safe," she says. Each week, Nancy gives a prompt and writers submit pieces based on that assignment. Chosen writers read their pieces on the live show, and then others call in to tell the writer what they loved. It's about process; it's about telling your story; it's about silencing the internal critic. Nancy is the author of the book Writing from the Heart (Hyperion) and is a commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered". Read more about her at www.chilmarkwritingworkshop.com. You don't have to "be a writer" to read on the show—just write from the heart! Listen to the show for more information, or send an e-mail to writingfromtheheart@lime.com Nancy's "Writing from the Heart Workshop" can be found live ON AIR on Thursdays at 2pm EST on Sirius Lime radio 114. The show is also streaming live online at www.lime.com on Thursdays at 7pm EST, with encores on Tuesdays at 7pm, Fridays at 7am, & Sundays at 7am & 2pm. To respond to a reading, please call Lime radio at: 1-866-546-3114. Those wishing to be added to her regular update list can email Nancy at writingfromtheheart@lime.com. |
—10/04/06 |
| Susan Myrick (penname Susan James) had a poem and a memoir piece accepted for publication in volume 15 of The Journal: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Journal of the Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. The journal, published yearly, is a beautiful, heavy-paged publication that includes artwork, prose, and poetry. |
—09/23/06 |
| Katherine Gannett's poem, "Would You Hear Me?", was published in Bleeding Quill: The Journal of Engaging Perspective (issue #3, page 35). |
—09/13/06 |
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Robin Edgar's Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depresssion has been published by CPCC Press of Charlotte, NC. The book explores ordinary histories during extraordinary times. Adding living color to the black and white facts about that era, it focuses on how individuals from various walks of life survived and how that survival shaped their lives.
For more info, see Robin's website: www.robinedgar.com. |
—09/02/06 |
| Theresa May was profiled ("Energetic Editor of UT Press by Day: Innovative Costume Designer by Night") in the August, 2006 (Vo. IV, No. 12) issue of AustinWoman Magazine. Her work as an editor for UT Press, her Story Circle Network affiliation, and her costume design work were all described. |
—08/15/06 |
| Cindy Jacobs' short story, "June, July and August" has been published in the online journal www.anderbo.com. The story is fiction, but based on Cindy's childhood. |
—08/14/06 |
| Ellen Collins' poem, "Three Views of an Oyster Shell", will be published in the Fall/Winter issue of Moon Journal. She wrote it while doing research for a musical drama based on the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay. |
—07/26/06 |
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Karleen Koen's new book, Dark Angels, will be published by Crown in September 2006. It is the prequel to her bestselling Through A Glass Darkly, which is being re-released in paperback in September. Crown's website for the new book: www.karleenkoen.com.
Book signings/readings:
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| Alyce Guynn's book, Deal Me In, is a collection of 52 love poems, illustrated by the late Jesse 'Guitar' Taylor. The book has a playing card theme, and the 52 poems represent the 52 cards in a deck. It is published by Pearson Publishing Company, and is available in Austin at BookWoman, Book People, and Waterloo Records. It is also available on-line through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com. |
—07/20/06 |
| Marcy Meffert's book, Madam Mayor: How I Learned to Love Government and Hate Politics in 10 Intriguing Years, will be published by Watercress Press in San Antonio in September or October, 2006. |
—07/13/06 |
| Texas Hill Country Magazine purchased Stephanie Barko's story on the Sahawe Indian Dancers for their winter issue. Stephanie, who is also a literary publicist, marketed Paul Schneider's Texas book tour for Brutal Journey: The Epic Story Of The First Crossing Of North America (Holt, 2006). |
—07/04/06 |
| Pat LaPointe will be published in the Fall/Winter issue of Moon Journal. She submitted a piece she wrote for her Internet Chapter writing e-circle #9's May topic, "Traveling to My Muse". |
—06/27/06 |
| Shawn Alladio's article entitled "Watch Your Backside" is published on the California Department of Boating and Waterways accident stories website. |
—06/26/06 |
| Marlys Marshall Styne's book, Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor, was published by Infinity Publishing on May 24, 2006. Right now, it is available at www.buybooksontheweb.com or by telephone at 1-877-289-2665. |
—05/30/06 |
Nancy Rigg tell us this:
"I've been featured in THIS WEEK'S Newsweek retrospective of an article I was interviewed for 20-years ago about women and marriage. This is the article with the oft-quoted comment about a woman's chances of being killed by a terrorist being greater than her chance of marrying after age 40 - a comment that took on more sober meaning post 9/11: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek. |
—05/29/06 |
| The University of Texas Press has agreed to publish Susan Wittig Albert's memoir, Landscapes of Solitude. The book is now on the Press's Fall, 2009 list. |
—05/26/06 |
| Sr. Mary Sullivan ("Mother", "Two Trips with my Mother"), Mary Jo Doig ("Leaving the Farm"), and Linda Wisniewski (review of American Depression Cookbook: Memories and Recipes from the 1930s) all had pieces published in the May issue of The Senior Voice (read the May issue here [pdf file]). |
—05/19/06 |
| Rosemary Daniell's new book, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives, was published this month. |
—05/18/06 |
| Mary Ann Reynolds' monologue, "Like Mother Like Daughter", is the opening monologue in the Austin (TX) Community College production, "In2 The West", this month. |
—04/24/06 |
| Stephanie Barko is delighted to announce that she has earned her first dollar from writing. The threshold was crossed when her first newspaper article was published in the April 2006 issue of the Hill Country Sun. Stephanie moderates the free-range circle, South Austin Book Group, which has grown from 6 to 20 people over the last six months. |
—04/14/06 |
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Shawn Alladio, a Personal Watercraft (PWC) safety expert, wrote a chapter called "Heavy Water" in the book Surfing's Greatest Misadventures: Dropping In on the Unexpected. In the book, Alladio recalls tales of big saves and near misses at the Red Bull Big Wave Africa Surfing Contest in 2001. Alladio made more that 60 rescues during the event, including the rescue of Ian Armstrong who wiped out on a 35-foot wave, became temporarily paralyzed, and nearly drowned. For more info, see www.thesurfbook.com.
Shawn was the subject of an article entitled "Superwoman of the Surf" on 5/14/06 in the Santa Barbara News-Press: "Whether pulling surfers out of monstrous waves at tow-in surfing competitions around the globe or training water-response personnel on a pleasant day at a local private beach, water rescue expert Shawn Alladio is on top of her game. On a recent Sunday, she was running an event in which a dozen men on personal watercraft competed for time on a buoy-marked course while simulating the rescue of victims in distress, keeping an eye on her 2-year-old daughter, Shania, and talking about the need for qualified water-rescue personnel—simultaneously. Alladio is known around the world for her work at tow-in contests such as the Big Wave Africa Surfing Contest in Hout Bay, Cape Town, Africa. But she is especially famous for having taken on a 100-foot wave in 2001 at Mavericks in Northern California on her personal watercraft, or boat as she calls the personal watercraft..." |
—04/12/06 |
| Laylee Muslovski won first place in the prose category of Cypress Branches (Lamar State College-Orange [TX]) for her piece "Threads of Life". |
—04/06/06 |
| Mary Jane Nordgren's one-act play "Water and The Word" has been selected for reading at the Great Plain Theatre Conference in Omaha late in May. |
—03/29/06 |
| Ina Albert writes stories from Grammy Ina—tales that involve relationships between grandparents and kids and the stories they tell—for "Montana Kids and Family Magazine". Fall issue, 2005: "The Flying Grandfather" tells of grandpa's early flying experiences. Winter Issue, 2005: "Jolly Judah the Holiday Elf" is the story of a Chanukah doll abandoned in the empty store window when both Christmas and Chanukah are being celebrated by the whole city on the same day. Spring Issue, 2006: "A Night at Chico Hot Springs" is a ghost story. Grandpa Mike, the owner of Chico Hot Springs, tells his granddaughter about how run down the hotel was when he bought it 30 years ago and his first night sleeping there. |
—03/14/06 |
| E.J. "Samadhi" Whitehouse's inspirational non-fiction book, Circles in the Sand, has been published. See www.samadhiwhitehouse.writerswebpages.com for all the details on where and how to purchase. |
—03/03/06 |
| Lisa Shirah-Hiers has had several stories published in AustinWoman Magazine in the past year, including a story about Susan Albert, SCN, and the Conference in the January, 2006 issue. |
—01/23/06 |
| Sandra Pinkerton is proud to announce that her first published short story, "On the Yellow Line", has been publisehd in Lost Soles, an anthology of 18 short stories and illustrations. The book is available through Partners Book Distributors, at Barnes & Noble, and on amazon.com. The ISBN #009729484-3-0. |
—01/17/06 |
| Linda Wisniewski of Doylestown, PA wrote an article for the March 2006 issue of The Quilter magazine. "Passing on the Comfort" is about American quilts used to shelter European refugees during World War II. The story grew from a book review Linda wrote for the Story Circle website. |
—01/16/06 |
| Ann Cabot, author of Choose to Move: Stories, Advice, and Humor for Living Anywhere, will be signing books and revealing her moving secrets on February 18 at 2pm at the south Borders Bookstore in Austin, TX. Please come and support a fellow Story Circle writer! |
—12/19/05 |
| A revised edition of Maureen Murdock's classic book, Fathers' Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind has been published (ISBN 1-882670-31-0). Go here for more info: www.springjournalandbooks.com. |
—01/09/06 |
| Ann Cabot, author of Choose to Move: Stories, Advice, and Humor for Living Anywhere, has an article published in the winter edition of Austin Traveler magazine. |
—12/19/05 |
| Nan Phifer's article, "Memoirs with Sacred Resonance", is published in the current issue of "Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction", Vol. 11, No. 4, Dec., 2005, Spiritual Directors International; Bellevue, WA. Journals are available through the organization's web site, www.sdiworld.org. |
—12/01/05 |
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Inner Outings: The Diarist's Deck of 33 Cards and Book of Exploration, by Charlene Geiss & Claudia Jessup, was published by New World Library. The Inner Outings Method enables you to bring your inner thoughts to paper. It can help you chronicle milestones and keep track of the characters and plots that flow around you each and every day. The boxed set of the Book of Exploration and Diarist's Deck are designed to help you pursue your unique self with abandon, express your thoughts, and sort out your experiences. Inner Outings will nudge the most reluctant writer with over 180 ways to take pen in hand and will inspire the more experienced diarist with new topics, perspectives, and techniques.
For more information: www.diaristworkshop.com. |
—12/01/05 |
| Glenys Carl's autobiography, Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey, was published by MacMillan in June, 2005. |
—11/22/05 |
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Reda Rackley's story, "The Grapefruit", was published this year in an anthology called Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died, edited by Ann O Fallon & Margaret Vaillancourt. It is available through Amazon.com.
Reda's CD of "fictional memoirs" titled Mud, Blood, & Blackberries: Stories to Honor Our Ancestors is now available; contact Reda at redarack@sbcglobal.net for more information. |
—11/22/05 |
| Memories Milestones and Memoirs: Selections from a Writing Workshop, edited by Emily Rosen, has been published; go here for more info: www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=34188. |
—11/16/05 |
| The editors of Story Circle's anthology of women's nature writing, tentatively titled A Land Full of Stories, recently announced that the University of Texas Press has officially accepted the book. The final manuscript is due in late November. The book will be published in Spring, 2007, in a national launch. Editors are SCN members Susan Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Seale, and Paula Yost. Nearly 100 writers have contributed to the book. Watch for the book's webpage, coming soon! |
—10/28/05 |
Ina Albert tells us her news about Write Your Self...Journal Your Self to Health:
Dear Friends, |
—09/22/05 |
| Marie Buckley won 1st place in Traditional Verse in the Oregon State Poetry Association 2005 fall contest for her villanelle "Tell Me". Marie wrote the piece this summer and sent it to her writing e-circle for the topic "Getting Lost". |
—09/15/05 |
Shawn Alladio's work in the flood zone along the Gulf Coast was written about in several locations:
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—10/24/05 |
| Nancy Rigg's piece, "Life and Death in the Flood Zone", was published in the 9/11/2005 Los Angeles Daily News, here: www2.dailynews.com/ci_3017727. |
—09/13/05 |
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Sharon Blumberg's latest research has been published in a book entitled Encyclopedia of Haunted Places by Jeff Belanger. She wrote about Reeder Road in Griffith, Indiana.
In 2000, Sharon's educational research was published in a book called The Gifts of All Children, by Ginny Hoover and Carroll Killingsworth. |
—09/10/05 |
| Stephanie Barko's story "First Love" will be published in Animal Trustees of Austin's fall 2005 newsletter, "The Animal Companion". Her poem "Louise" will appear in the second issue (November 2005) of Ohio's "Releasing Times". Stephanie is starting a Spiritual Book Club this fall for south Austinites. For more information, email |
—09/06/05 |
| Nancy Rigg's story, "Life after Death," is being included in the upcoming anthology, Sisters Singing: Incantations, Blessings, Chants, Prayers and Sacred Stories from Women Writers (Wild Girl Publishing). |
—08/15/05 |
| Dita Dauti of Austin TX tells us she, Liz Carpenter, and Cindy Yarbrough, all members of a local Austin writing circle, each had pieces published in the lastest issue of Austin Woman Magazine. |
—08/12/05 |
| Linda Wisniewski's essay, "Peace Talks: One Woman's Passion", appears in the summer issue of Quiet Mountain Essays, an online feminist magazine. |
—08/02/05 |
| "You Are Moving Where?", a story written by Robin Edgar of Charlotte NC, is in the August issue of Skirt! Magazine. |
—08/01/05 |
Duffie Bart of Santa Barbara CA, writes a bi-monthly column for the weekly Good Times newspaper in Santa Cruz, CA. Duffie tells us this:
"Just to update this glorious group: I am writing a regular column these days and it has been a blessing to the deepening of my understanding of myself. This has become a regular column and the subjects that have been published to date include the following topics: My Family, On Relationships, Health (rejuvenation), On Spirituality, The Lure of Hollywood, and I am currently writing one On Living Alone. Loving memoir writing as I do, I have found the brief modality of these columns to be enormously satisfying. So far, I am overwhelmed by the organizational requirements of writing a book and I find these shorter pieces are within my capabilities and keep my writing flowing. |
—08/01/05 |
| Patricia Fiske has just published her second book of poetry, Sacred Cycle. |
—07/13/05 |
| Ann Cabot has just published her first book, Choose to Move: Stories, Advice, and Humor for Living Anywhere. It is a book about moving successfully and living anywhere you desire to live. It contains humorous memoirs from Ann's own relocations to places like Austin, Denver, Portland and farther afield to Honolulu and Anchorage. It also gives practical advice for all the decisions a mover has to face. |
—07/13/05 |
| Linda Wisniewski's article "Massage for the Soul," about harp therapy in health care settings, appears in the July/August issue of Massage magazine. |
—07/13/05 |
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The video used to introduce the Higgins & Langley Memorial Awards, "READY FOR THE STORM", which was written, produced, and directed by Nancy J. Rigg, received a prestigious independent video and film award ~ the GOLD AWARD ~ from the Aurora Awards:
READY FOR THE STORM
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—07/07/05 |
| Kathleen Baker recently self-published The Expressive Journal Writer's Notebook: Twenty-Five Exercises to Enliven Your Journal Writing. |
—06/29/05 |
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Shawn Alladio, founder and owner of K-38 Water Safety, was chosen as this year's recipient of the 2005 National Water Safety Congress award for her efforts in promoting water safety around the world. The National Award is presented annually to an individual, organization, firm or agency that has made a significant contribution to water safety issues or programs on a national level. To read more about this, go here: www.watersafetycongress.org/Journal/2005/May 05.pdf.
Shawn also has a short story, "Heavy Water: The Rescue of Ian Armstrong", published in an upcoming book, Surfing's Greatest Misadventures: Dropping in on the Unexpected, edited by by Paul Diamond. The story tells of a personal watercraft rescue conducted by Shawn at "Dungeons", a big wave surfing break in South Africa, near Cape Town. For more info on the book, contact the publishers, Casagrande Press, at 4316 36th Ave W #C, Seattle WA 98199. Read more about Shawn:
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—06/27/05, 07/06/05 |
| Khadijah Lacina tells us about her new cookbook: "I just wanted to let you know about a cookbook put together by a friend, the proceeds of which go to breast cancer research. I wrote the introduction, and have some recipes in the book, which is available in a PDF as well as a CD." Go here for more information: bare-essensuals.com. |
—06/24/05 |
| The OWL-Circle group led Rosalie Muschal-Reinhardt of Webster, NY, was featured in an interview in the May 14, 2005 Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle. You can read the interview here: www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050514/NEWS0202/505140321/1006 |
—05/19/05 |
| "Good Grief: Robin Edgar Shares The Healing Power Of Reminiscence" appears in the May, 2005 issue of Today's Charlotte Woman. Read this interview with Robin Edgar here: www.todayscharlottewoman.com/grief.html. |
—05/05/05 |
| Julie Gallagher is launching a zine for women in our 50's and 60's called Releasing Times. The type of writing that appears in Story Circle's True Words from Real Women is exactly what Releasing Times is about: personal, concrete, heartfelt, depicting real experiences. For more information, see www.releasingtimes.com. The general theme is that the decades of our 50's and 60's are a time of transition, when many of the things that previously defined us are falling away. We're "releasing" some of our dreams and illusions, some of our relationships, as well as some of the nagging voices and misconceptions that have been holding us back. Releasing Times will be an opportunity for women to share our interior voices with other women in these unique transition years. |
—04/18/05 |
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Writing Our World Press, a Chicago-based independent publishing house recently announced the publication of Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir, by former presidential diarist and Arkansas native Janis F. Kearney. While January 1, 2005 was the official publication date of the memoir, a special edition of the book debuted at the William J. Clinton Library Inaugural Celebration, held in Arkansas in November, 2004.
Philanthropist Belinda Everette and Borders Books will host Janis F. Kearney in Houston on a book signing tour and a private invitation only reception. The VIP reception "A Conversation with Janis F. Kearney" will be held on April 23 during Ms. Kearney's City of Houston promotional tour. She will be discussing her journey and reading excerpts from Cotton Field Of Dreams. |
—03/30/05 |
| Angie Pedersen of Lees Summit MO tells us that her 3rd book has been published: The Book Of Us: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Relationships. Her other books are The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Yourself and Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories. You can read more about it here: www.scrapyourstories.com/growingupme.htm, or on her blog: angiepedersen.typepad.com/blogofme. |
—03/30/05 |
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Georgia Hubley of Henderson NV tells us that her story, "Monday Morning Blues" appears in the new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living: Weight Loss. This brand new Healthy Living series includes four titles: Weight Loss, Heart Disease, Breast Cancer, and Menopause which were released for sale nationally in pharmacies and supermarkets on March 1, 2005. The books will be available at bookstores and other retailers in August 2005.
In addition, Hubley, a frequent contributor to the Chicken Soup series, shared her story, "Missing" (a story about coping with turning fifty and her mother's Alzheimer's disease) appears in the recently released Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul. |
—03/30/05 |
| Ina Albert of Whitefish MT will be a speaker at the National Planetree Alliance conference in October in Chantilly, VA—a workshop on journaling for the 93 hospitals that are members of the Planetree Alliance. Ina is the author of Write Yourself Well. |
—03/29/05 |
| The Charlotte (NC) Observer ran a story on Robin Edgar's story circle, the Red Tent Society. Read the article here: www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/books/11171667.htm. |
—02/10/05 |
| Dita Dauti of Austin TX tells us, "I have been quite busy since I returned from my trip to Kosova last fall. With the help ans support of many friends I have started a volunteer organization called 400 Voices that represents 400 students of the Trepca School in Stanterg, Kosova (my former school). 400 Voices exists to teach about the two cultures, bring them closer together and in the same time to help with the restoration of the school. Feel free to contact me for more information." (see www.main.org/400voices) |
—03/09/05 |
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Ina Albert of Whitefish, MT tells us this: "After 35 years in healthcare communications, I moved from Chicago to Whitefish, Montana where I self-published Write Your Self Well: Journal Your Self to Health last June. Together with co-author, Zoe Keithley, we created a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to writing designed specifically for individuals suffering from illness in Write Your Self Well: Journal Your Self to Health, (Mountain Greenery Press, 2004, ISBN Number: 0975319604; $16.95), available through amazon.com or www.writeyourself.com. The journal is based on over 25 years of research that demonstrates the positive results of journaling for healing and health. It presents the research, offers a number of fun and intriguing ways to journal and is a workbook with quotes designed to stimulate memories of significant life events."
Ina's book has been endorsed by James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D., the pioneer researcher in the field of expressive writing, and by healthcare guru Leland Kaiser, Ph.D., educator, speaker and futurist. In addition, Ina is working on a book of short stories about her 10 year experience of caring for her parents through Alzheimer's, heart surgeries, and strokes. |
—03/04/05 |
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Penny Leisch of Tempe, AZ tells us this: "To my surprise, I received notice from the AWP Job List that they want to publish my article, 'Photos Add $$$', as the feature in the March 2005 bulletin. The reason this was such a surprise is because I sent the article to them in September 2004. AWP Job List is a publication of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. So this publication is not only a surprise, but it is also quite
an honor to be included in a publication of this stature." (see www.awpwriter.org)
Penny is also excited about her first book signing as a local author for Cup of Comfort for Mothers & Sons, which comes out April 19. Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona is hosting the signing April 30 at 2pm. |
—03/01/05 |
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Linda Wisniewski of Doylestown, PA had an essay published in the Feb 17th issue of the Christian Science Monitor's Home Forum section, available online at search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0217/p18s03-hfes.html.
Linda also has published memoirs in A Cup of Comfort for Sisters, Adams Media, 2004 and Rocking Chair Reader: Memories from the Attic, Adams Media, 2005. |
—02/21/05 |
| "Accidental Farmer", a short story written by Beverly Galante of Wimberley, TX, has been published by Small Town USA in the book Growing Up on Memory Lane. For more information, go here: www.smalltownusa.net. |
—02/21/05 |
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Duffie Bart of Santa Barbara CA, writes a bi-monthly column for the weekly Good Times newspaper in Santa Cruz, CA. She has written two so far: one on Relationships (www.gtweekly.com/opinion/story.2005-02-09.1691904893), the other on Rejuvenation for a rejuvenation issue they are putting out. She is currently writing a column for them on Parenting and then will do one on Hollywood. Duffie tells us, "I am having fun and am so grateful for ...[SCN's] ... encouragement...I wish I could let people know the degree to which SCN is responsible for my writing more, writing better, feeling more confident, and getting some public writing attention. It all feels like miraculous progress and I am floating..."
A short quote from Duffie's review of TRAVELING LIGHT by Deborah DeWit Marchant is posted in the titles section at www.impassio.com or www.odresher.addr.com/press/tl.htm. |
—02/21/05 |
| Nancy Rigg, a writer and documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles CA, has 2 articles and a guest editorial about the water search and rescue response to the tsunami disaster in Asia in this month's issue of ADVANCED RESCUE TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE: "New Protocols Save Lives in Hurricanes" (Nancy analyzes the response to the hurricanes that hit the East Coast in late 2004); "Flood Rescue: Taking the World by Storm" (profile of the response of rescuers to the devastating flash-flood that hit the small village of Boscastle, England in August, causing millions of pounds of damage. The flood was one of the most extreme ever recorded in Britain). Go here for more info: www.advancedrt.com/tocnavo.html. |
—02/10/05 |
| Robin Edgar of Charlotte, NC appeared on "Charlotte Talks", a local NPR radio program, talking about her Story Circle in Charlotte, NC on Jan 26, 2005. You can hear it at www.wfae.org/wfae/nav1024.cfm?cat=18&subcat=93 (click on the Jan. 26th program: Red Tent Society story circle). |
—02/10/05 |
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Lee Ambrose of Naples, FL has a column in the e-format as well as the print publication for Penwomanship. "Lee's Book Nook" will feature book reviews of new and classic women's writings.
To learn more about Penwomanship, readers can go to www.penwomanship.com. To read Lee's first e-book review for Penwomanship, go to www.penwomanship.com/Laying-on-Hands-Miller-Ambrose-Review.htm. The first print column will be available in the April 2005 edition of Penwomanship. |
—02/03/05 |
| Katherine V. Gannett of Cedar Falls, Iowa will have two of her poems, "Fractured Mirror" and "Standing on the Bridge," published in the 2004-2005 issue of Inner Weather, the University of Northern Iowa's student journal. One of her photographs will appear in this journal, also. |
—02/02/05 |
| Elsa Eysenbach McKeithan, Ph.D.'s book, Writing the Stories of Your Life: How to Turn Memories into Memoir, was published in the fall of 2004 and is now available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, talkingstonespublishing.com, and worldwide from trafford.com. |
—02/01/05 |
| Kathleen Baker is the lead author of the article, "The Healing Power of Writing: Applying Experiential/Creative Compnents of Poetry Therapy", which was published in the just released issue of The Journal of Poetry Therapy (V17, #3). |
—01/26/05 |
| Linda Joy Myers, author of Becoming Whole and Don't Call Me Mother, is publishing a new monthly email newsletter, "Memories and Memoirs." The newsletter offers ideas and suggestions for writing about your life. To subscribe, go to www.memoriesandmemoirs.com. |
—01/24/05 |
| Evelyn Cook has two devotional writings in Penned From the Heart, compiled by Gloria Clover. She joined a Christian writers' group, Words for the Journey, and when the members suggested opportunities for devotional writing she pulled long forgotten writings from her files and sent them in. |
—01/05/05 |
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Penny Leisch was selected as the ghostwriter for a local television celebrity. Her name is Good Golly Miss Molly, and she is the co-host of a local morning television show,"Your Life A-Z", which is hosted by Heidi Fogelsong. Molly's column is posted online. The column also appears in Loving Pets Magazine. LPM kindly acknowledged that Molly, a golden doodle, needed a little help putting paw to paper.
Inspired2Write will host Photography for Writers, Penny's online workshop to help writers use photos to make more money, beginning in 2005. You don't even have to have a camera to add photos to your stories. The first workshop will begin January 10. To kick off this new partnership, Penny is running an essay contest. First prize is a free workshop. Second prize is the free ebook, Writing & Photography: A $Winning$ Combination. Details are available on her web site, www.pennyspensandpics.com. |
—12/02/04 |
| Jean Leonard of Ormond Beach, FL has written The Hat Lady, a book for children about the effects of chemotherapy, inspired by a friend, Eileen Elkins, and illustrated by Mollie Elkins. For information contact Judith Helburn at |
—11/11/04 |
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In 2003 Sue Bilich read With Courage and Common Sense live on Austin Information Radio (AIR). Sue tells us, "I found it to be such a wonderful book with stories that were so compelling and couragous. AIR reaches a certain population, blind or unable to enjoy books on their own. I believe that the station which broadcasts from The State School For The Blind reaches a 45 mile radius, with Doug Foxworth as their station manager. Doug is also blind."
Sue has also been a narrator for the past 7 years for the Texas Talking Books program located in the Zavala Library at the state capitol. Volunteers narrate books by Texans or about Texas. This year, With Courage and Common Sense was purchased and when Sue saw it sitting on the "to be read" self, she picked it up and asked if she could narrate it into one of the audio books that are recorded for the blind. Sue says, "This is my second time to read this wonderful book about women and their lives and I'm enjoying it even more, because I'm finding out new things about each of the contributing women. It inspired me so much that I became a member of the Story Circle Network, and have participated in a couple of the workshops. I hope to write my life story and the story of the women in my family. Thank you helping us tell our stories." |
—10/31/04 |
| Janis F. Kearney's memoir, Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir, will be published by her independent press, Writing Our World Press, in December, 2004. For more information, go to www.writingourworldpress.com. |
—10/29/04 |
| PJ Pierce is being featured in a thirty-minute segment on Cable Channel 10 (Austin TX) on Monday, Oct 18 at 6:30pm. It is a project of the Writers League of Texas, featuring Texas authors. The subject is PJ's book, Texas Wisewomen Speak, and the process she went through in writing it. For more info, go here: www.writersleague.org/WritingAcrossTX.htm. PJ's website is www.pjpierce.com. |
—10/14/04 |
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Mary Sullivan co-wrote a book for women titled What image am I as a Woman of Prayer?. It is a daily meditation book, the size of a LARGE file card, and can be purchased for $6.95 plus postage from her: Sr. Mary Sullivan, The Cenacle, 411 River Rd, Highland Park NJ 08904-1999.
She also co-wrote, with SCN member Rose Marie Dunphy, a book titled That First Bite: Chance or Choice: A Working Guide Empowering Choice for Those With Eating Disorders, which sells at $7.95 plus postage and can also be ordered from the above address. |
—09/29/04 |
| Lee Ambrose has been invited to be a contributing writer for the quarterly publication STILL MOMENTS. The Fall 2004 issue contains two of the stories she wrote for her SCN Internet Chapter e-circles: "Bread + Jam = Friendship" and "Leafing". |
—09/27/04 |
| Lavon Urbonas has just had two of her stories published in the Pomona Valley Review, a student-edited publication of the English and Foreign Language Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA; the authors have a reading scheduled at a local Barnes and Noble. Another of Lavon's stories has been accepted by Small Town USA, to be included in a book titled Growing Up on Memory Lane. For more information, go here: www.smalltownusa.net/stgmlexcerpts.html. |
—09/20/04 |
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Lisa Shirah-Hiers wrote an article, "Leap of Faith: Former College Vice President Susan Albert Solves the Mystery to Becoming a Successful Writer", that was published in the September issue of Austin Monthly magazine. The article profiles Susan Albert, with info about her new upcoming mystery series based on the life of Beatrix Potter. (The first book in her series is The Tale of Hill Top Farm.)
Lisa also had two articles published in the Hill Country Sun in August and one in AustinWoman Magazine in June. |
—09/15/04 |
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Penny J. Leisch recently finished her e-book, Writing & Photography - A $Winning$ Combination, based on her successful workshops, "Writing & Photography for Publication". The book is now available on her web site, www.pennyspensandpics.com/wrtphotobk.html. This book will be an asset for many members who are publishing genealogy work and wish to include family photos, as well as the members who publish nostalgia or children's stories.
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—09/14/04 |
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Sharon Bray's new book, A Healing Journey: Writing Together through Breast Cancer, has just been published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press. A Healing Journey chronicles the experience of a group of women who write together—demonstrating the healing power of writing and telling our stories aloud together. It is aimed at anyone whose life has been touched by cancer as well as other writing group leaders and helping professionals. Endorsements include those by James W. Pennebaker, PhD, David Spiegel, MD, and Ellen Bass, poet. Contact Sharon (
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—08/08/04 |
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Katherine V. Gannett's poem, "Standing on the Bridge", has been selected as a semi-finalist in a poetry contest co-sponsored by The Famous Poets Society, and will be published in an anthology titled Great Poets of the Western World.
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—08/04/04 |
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Sarah Jordan's book, The Boss Queen, Little Big Bark, and the Sentinel Pup, has just been published. You can read more about the story behind the story at: www.sarahclarkjordan.com. The book can be ordered here: www.tenspeedpress.com/catalog/tricycle/item.php3?id=1884.
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—07/31/04 |
| Emma Dawson recently published her book, My Secret Life with a Sex Addict: From Discovery to Recovery; it can be ordered online at www.bookstobelievein.com. |
—07/28/04 |
| Linda C. Wisniewski of Doylestown, Pa. won second prize for creative nonfiction at the Philadelphia Writers Conference in June for her essay, "A Connecting Thread." |
—07/13/04 |
| Susan Hanson has been chosen to be the the Austin TX Barnes & Noble "Author of the Month" for the month of August. Her new book, Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World, was recently published by Texas Tech University Press: www.ttup.ttu.edu/books/iconsofloss.htm. Susan is one of the editors of SCN's anthology, Women Write About the Southwest. She will be signing at Bookwoman on July 14 at 7pm and Barnes and Noble Sunset Valley (5601 Brodie Ln) on Aug. 12 at 7:30pm. |
—07/07/04 |
| Story Circle Member Linda Lipinski has been notified that her story, "An Unexpected Gift of Peace", has been selected to appear in the next Chicken Soup book series. This next book is called Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul and is scheduled to be available in bookstores by September 2004. This is Linda's September 11 story of becoming grounded and stranded at the Phoenix airport and her mother's death that night. Linda's inspirational genealogy album, A Legacy To Remember, is one of Story Circle's Neat Stuff products. |
—06/29/04 |
| "Accidental Farmer", a short story written by Beverly Galante, will be published by Small Town USA in the book Growing Up on Memory Lane, due out this summer. For more information, go here: www.smalltownusa.net/stgmlexcerpts.html. |
—06/29/04 |
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Penny Leisch's instructional article Photos Close Sales will appear on Write Craft (www.writecraftweb.com) July 15, to be followed by a private workshop in August for their critique group members. A review and photo of Robomower appears on Allwoodwork.com and the story, V for Victory, will appear in the August/September 2004 issue of Loving Pets Magazine (www.lovingpetsmagazine.com).
Penny's portrait-interview will appear on the web site of Inspired2Write.com before the end of 2004. The month is undecided at present. Other writers may want to check the site and order the questionnaire. It is a simple automated request and it's free, but if you are selected to appear, it's great free publicity too. The site offers nice resources for writers and the interview will be released to you after the publication for your own use. (www.inspired2write.com). |
—06/17/04 |
| Tracy Pace's new website is up and running: www.tracypace.com with her CD ("War Music") and autobiographical poetry chapbook (Poet on Zero Street). |
—06/02/04 |
| The TV show "TACTICAL TO PRACTICAL" on the History Channel features a segment on swiftwater rescue and also includes an interview with Nancy Rigg. The SWIFTWATER RESCUE episode (Show #19) is scheduled to air on TUESDAY, JUNE 8TH, 9:00 PM. Check your local listings, because the schedule may change. |
—05/24/04 |
| Susie Kelly Flatau (www.WordsBySusie.com), upon invitation by the International Hospitality Council of Austin (in conjunction with the Office of International Visitors and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs), was one of seven Austin-area writers/journalists who met individually with 3 senior administrators of university-level journalism education programs from the Republic of Kazakhstan. Under the auspices of the Freedom Support Act, the U.S. Department of State sponsored the Russian educator's International Visitor Program/project-"Teaching Journalism (Freedom Support): An International Visitor Project for Kazakhstan." The three women journalists—Ms. Tatyana Golubtsova, Ms. Meiramkhan ZHAPEK, Mrs. Vera Kislenkova, and Ms. Flatau—discussed and shared writing experiences, ideas, techniques and visions. The Russian-speaking group was accompanied by Mr. Dmitri Zolotov, an interpreter from the Department of State's Office of Language Services. |
—05/12/04 |
| Christine Gilbert, Mary Faloon, Sofia Harber Bowden, and Louise LaBauve Saxon all have pieces in the just-published Writing Austin's Lives: a Community Portrait, a beautiful, 400-page joint publication of the Austin History Center Association's Waterloo Press and the University of Texas Humanities Institute. The book features 127 of the nearly 800 true stories about life in Austin that were submitted to the Humanities Institute between March and August 2003, together with photos from the Austin History Center's collection, and contemporary photos by local Austin photographers. More info can be found here: www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/huminst/wal/book.html. |
—05/10/04 (revised 09/01/04) |
| A special program entitled "The Best of the Best of the University Presses: Books You Should Know About," will be presented at the summer meeting of the American Library Association on June 26 in Orlando, FL. At this session, 29 books published in 2003 will be presented by seven librarians from the 2003 University Press Book Committee, to represent the titles featured in AAUP's annual collection development bibliography. Marvin Arnett's award-winning memoir, Pieces from Life's Crazy, will be among the 29 titles presented. The "Best of the Best Program," now in its sixth year, offers librarians the opportunity to share advice and recommendations with their colleagues and recognizes the valuable contribution that university press books can make to both public and secondary school libraries. By providing a public forum to discuss both, these books and the bibliography, the program has increased awareness and use of University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries in collection planning. |
—05/10/04 |
| Trudie Eklund's new book, Sisters Around the World: The Global Struggle for Female Equality (ISBN 076182819), has been published by Hamilton Books, an imprint of University Press of America. The book can be ordered from the publisher at 15200 NBN Way, P.O. Box 191, Blue Ridge Summit PA 17214-0191 (800-462-6420); cost is $26. This book addresses individual stories of women in 13 different countries, the United States, Guatemala, Peru, Spain, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ireland, Sicily, China, Malawai, Nigeria and Puerto Rico. |
—05/10/04 |
| Linda Wisniewski's review of Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, by Sonia Pressman Fuentes, was recently republished by Msmagazine.com. The review originally appeared on the SCN Book Review site. |
—05/04/04 |
| Linda Lipinski, creator of "A Legacy To Remember" album, tells us us that her album was the top winner for the State of New Mexico in the National Mail Order Association (NMOA) 2003 "Made in America" Hot Product Contest. This is a national search for the most unique and interesting products Made in America. You can find out more about this product here: www.storycircle.org/NeatStuff.html or on her website, here: www.alegacytoremember.com. |
—04/29/04 |
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Authors Sally Fugazi and Debbie Harwell announce the release of their book Candles in the Darkness (1stBooks). Candles is the authors' true, inspiring story of midlife women facing the challenges of family and aging. "Sal" and "Deb" tackle it all: eldercare, rebellious teenagers, roller coaster hormones, sagging skin and even clinical depression. However, life is too short to be miserable! They battle the hard times using faith and humor, and by being a light for one another. In the end, the two friends discover that it's not about circumstances, it's about Attitude!
The authors were honored to present the first copy of their book to former First Lady Barbara Bush in recognition for her sharing her own inspiring words with women. To see a picture of the presentation, or to learn more about the book, visit the authors' website at www.candlesinthedarkness.com. The authors have been publishing this website as a seasonal e-zine for women for the past two years. |
—04/20/04 |
| Sharon Wildwind, author of the memoir Dreams That Blister Sleep, will have her first mystery, Some Welcome Home, published in 2005 by Five Star Publications. The book is about friendships in the Army, during the Vietnam era. Captain Elizabeth Pepperhawk, an Army nurse just returned from Vietnam, discovers a body in her room at Fort Bragg. In the course of the murder investigation, Pepper becomes friends with her neighbors, Captain Avivah Rosen, a military police officer, and First Sergeant Benny Kirkpatrick, a green beret. The three friends band together to protect one another and bring a killer to justice. |
—04/19/04 |
| Khadijah Lacina was interviewed for an online newsletter, Soap Nuts: http://soapnuts.com/Soapnutsnewsletter//SoapnutsMar04/Newsletter3Mar04/meetamember.htm. She also wrote an article on henna body art for the same site: http://soapnuts.com/Soapnutsnewsletter//SoapnutsApr04/Newsletter4Apr04/celebrate_spring.htm. |
—04/12/04 |
| Beverly Galante's story "Accidental Farmer" has been published in a book entitled Growing Up on Memory Lane (Small Town USA, April 2004). |
—04/04/04 |
| Jazz Jaeschke has been accepted for the 2004 Austin International Poetry Festival's anthology, Di-Verse-City. The poem they endorsed is "Seeding Seduction", written in August 2003. The anthology launch is April 15, 2004. |
—04/02/04 |
| Jackie Sedwick's piece, "Beginnings," written for the Internet Chapter's writing e-circle #6 in January, appeared in THE VERB, 2/02/04 issue. A poem, "Come Back," will appear in the next issue of APOLLO'S LYRE. |
—04/01/04 |
| Lisa Shirah-Hiers has sold two articles to The Hill Country Sun, a tourist magazine for travelers in the Texas Hill Country. The first is on an Austin gift shop called Kids N Kats and the second is on the dino pit at the Austin Nature and Science Center. |
—03/31/04 |
| Angie Pedersen's 2nd book has been published, and was released in February: Growing Up ME: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories. You can read more about it here: www.scrapyourstories.com/growingupme.htm. She is currently working on her 3rd book: The Book of Us: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Relationships, which will be released Feb. 2005. (Her first book was The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking about Yourself.) |
—03/25/04 |
| Linda Wisniewski's essay, "Follow Your Bliss", which was started in the Internet Chapter's writring e-circle #9, was published in the Sunday, March 22 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. |
—03/24/04 |
| Mary Jo Doig's piece entitled "An Ordinary Moment", written for the Internet Chapter's writing e-circle #7, is being published in the April issue of The Senior Voice, which was listed on Story Circle Network's Marketwatch webpage (here: MarketWatch.shtml). |
—03/24/04 |
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Mary Sullivan's poem, "Ancestors' Artifacts", will be published in the April issue of The Senior Voice, which was listed on Story Circle Network's Marketwatch webpage (here: MarketWatch.shtml).
"My Leprechaun", a piece that Mary wrote for her Internet Chapter e-circle last month about one of her older (97 years old) Cenacle religious Sisters, was read at the woman's funeral last week. |
—03/09/04 |
| Helen Ginger, SCN member and Executive Director of the Writers League of Texas, publishes a weekly newsletter with helpful ideas for writers, from writers. The newsletter, "Doing It Write," also includes markets, conferences, and all the latest buzz. Highly recommended. To subscribe, go to www.helenginger.com/doing_it_write_pg.htm. |
—02/12/04 |
| Pat Flathouse, Austin OWL-Circle Director, has just completed a new book entitled A Priceless Legacy: Writing the Stories of Your Family History. It is a nine-chapter book with exercises, ideas, and ways to help you write the stories of your family history. To order your own copy ($18, including shipping), contact Pat Flathouse ( ). |
—01/27/04 |
| Penny J. Leisch won first place in the category of adult rhyming poetry in the 4th Annual Prairie Hill Writing Contest for a nostalgic poem "Barely Remembered". For more information, see www.prairiehillbooks.com (click on Writing Contest Winners). |
—01/16/04 |
| Barbara Carr's new book, Counting Places in the Presence of Our Ancestors, was published in October, 2003. Both it and her previous book, Dreamdancing with Ancestors, were funded by a City of Austin Arts Commission Grant - which has funded her this year to work on another book in her Ancestor Series. |
—01/07/04 |
| Lee Ambrose recently published her first e-booklet, "Feasts of Light," a book of Christmas Rituals and Reflections." Congratulations, Lee, on a beautiful work! |
—12/20/03 |
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Mary Faloon's entry in the "Writing Austin's Lives" project has been chosen as one of the award winners! Nearly 800 Austinites submitted life stories to the UT Humanities Institute's community discovery project, "Writing Austin's Lives." On Sunday, November 16th, from 3-5 PM, the Humanities Institute will host the WRITING AUSTIN'S LIVES Awards Ceremony and Community Celebration, in which more than forty adult and student writers (one from each participating neighborhood and school) will be specially recognized for contributing stories that, in the estimation of a diverse panel of readers and judges, powerfully express and deepen all of our understandings of Austin's various "lives." (To see a list of the award winners, visit www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/huminst/wal/winners.html.)
For more information, please see SCN's Member Events page. |
—11/07/03 |
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Linda Wisniewski's memoir, "My Body My Self," has been nominated by the editor of Mindprints literary magazine for a Pushcart Prize for 2003!
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, was started by Bill Henderson in 1972 and features the year's best short stories, poems, and essays originally published by small presses and literary magazines. It is characterized by the New York Times Book Review as the "single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today. " Linda's story was published in volume III, 2003 of Mindprints, literary magazine of Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA. "From the very first edition—in which, Henderson recalls, the Pushcart "discovered Raymond Carver"—to the present one, the Prize anthology has helped to foster the careers of such writers as Charles Baxter, Rosellen Brown, John Irving, Ha Jin, Mary Karr, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, and Mona Simpson. " |
—11/03/03 |
| The University of Texas Press recently published SCN's first collection of memoirs, With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles. The anthology presents 105 writings by women who participated in SCN's OWL workshops in 1999 and 2000. To read more about the book, go here: www.storycircle.org/owlcircle/withcourage. |
—10/29/03 |
| Karen Ryan's article, entitled "WELCOMING WINTER (or leaving those cold shadows of winter behind)", was published on Oct. 19 in the Fort Myer's (Florida) News-Press. Karen is also the new editor for Jennifer Louden's Comfort Queen website: http://comfortqueen.com/whatsnew.html#2. |
—10/27/03 |
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SCN Member Named Writers League of Texas Executive Director
Helen Ginger has been selected to lead the Writers' League of Texas as its full time Executive Director, the WLT Board of Directors has announced. "After an extensive search to fill the executive director's position the search committee made a recommendation to the Board of Directors last night to offer the position to Helen Ginger on a permanent basis," said Linda Germain, President of the Board. "The vote was unanimous to confirm the recommendation, and I am happy to announce that Helen has accepted the position. "The search committee reviewed over 200 applications and interviewed a number of excellent candidates but no one had all of the qualifications we were looking for and none could impress us more than Helen has since she agreed to take over as interim director. Helen has done an outstanding job in the few months she has been with us and we have every confidence that she will exceed our expectations as the new Executive Director."—Linda Germain, President of the Writers' League Board of Directors. Before joining the League as Interim Director in 2003, Helen served the League as a volunteer for four years. She is an owner and partner in "Legends In Our Own Minds" handling women's marketing and their Web site, and has worked as an editor and freelance book consultant for seven years. Having earned an M.A. in Speech Communication and B.A. in English and Speech Communication from Southwest Texas State University, she has also served as a public speaker/moderator for writing workshops, panels, and conferences. She is also a past president of the Austin Chapter of Sisters in Crime. SCN congratulates Helen on her new appointment! |
—10/16/03 |
| Trudie Eklund signed a contract with Hamiliton Books, a subsidiary of Rowan and Littlefield Publishers for her new book, Sisters Around the World: The Global Struggle for Female Equality. She researched 12 countries throughout the world (plus the US) and wrote about conditions in the countries relating to women and their lack of equal treatment. |
—09/25/03 |
| Patricia Fiske has a gig on September 25 at Antones in Austin, TX with her Word Jazz group. They do spoken word with a band called Diverse Arts. Patricia tells us, "I am the token lady in the group. They are mostly young, very talented minority men. I LOVE working with them and I think you will be entertained." |
—09/25/03 |
| Pamela Troeppl-Kinnaird has a new website, www.pamela-troeppl.com, where you can sign up to receive her columns, which appear in the following newspapers: The Colorado Daily -Boulder, CO; The Andalusia Star -Andalusia, AL; Pacific Publishing Company (The Magnolia News and The Queen Anne News) -Seattle, WA; and the Arizona Daily Sun -Flagstaff, AZ. |
—09/16/03 |
| Linda Wisniewski was featured in a full page article on September 3rd in the Perkasie (Pa.) News Herald. The article has two color photos of Linda speaking at a senior center about the benefits of memoir writing. |
—09/08/03 |
| Renee Cassese's essay about her Story Circle was included in The Writing Group Book: Creating and Sustaining a Successful Writing Group, edited by Lisa Rosenthal. The book was published this month by Chicago Review Press, 814 North Franklin St, Chicago IL 60610, ISBN 1556524986. Renee tells us, "It was so exciting to see my writing included. I am looking forward to doing some local book signings and getting the word out about SCN." |
—08/25/03 |
| On August 22-23, 2003, Paula Stallings Yost will present workshops at the StoryKeepers' Festival in Missoula, Montana StoryKeepers is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of oral and written histories through sharing and gathering stories. Paula's presentations will include "The Healing Power of Stories" - emphasizing the importance of journaling as a road to self-discovery and self-confidence, and "Story Circles" based on the successful story circle concept utilized by the Story Circle Network that demonstrates working together means succeeding together. For more information about the StoryKeepers' Festival, visit www.mystorykeepers.org/mystorykeepers and www.mystorykeepers.org/mystorykeepers/paulayost.html. |
—08/10/03 |
| Beverly Galante had a story accepted by Small Town USA, called "The Joy of Place" that will be published in their fall publication. She also had two poems accepted for publication by the World of Poetry, called "The Sea" and "Nostalgia." |
—07/29/03 |
| Renee Howard Cassese recently had a personal essay entitled "The Bookmobile" accepted for publication in the anthology Small Town USA, due for publication this fall. Renee heard about Small Town USA through the SCN Market Watch webpage (www.storycircle.org/MarketWatch.shtml)! |
—07/19/03 |
| Linda Wisniewski's short story, "Anything Could Happen," was published in the Summer 2003 issue of JAW Magazine. The story began in Susan Albert's "From Memoir to Fiction" online class. Linda also won special honorable mention in this year's Byline Magazine profile article contest, for her story "Peacetalks: Are You Listening?" |
—07/17/03 |
| Jackie Woolley's article, "It's Not My Fault," will be published in the November 2003 issue of "Busy Freelancer", a monthly e-zine for freelancing parents. Check them out at www.writefromhome.com. And see Jackie's website, here: home.austin.rr.com/jjbooks. |
—07/16/03 |
| Theresa May's original musical, WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY, (co-written with two other playwrights), was performed in Austin TX by kidsActing, during July, 2003. The show begins with the fairy-tale Sleeping Beauty, who pricks her finger and falls asleep. But then... 500 years later, a movie company rents an old dilapidated castle in the countryside to shoot a new movie version of Sleeping Beauty. The actor Prince kisses the slumbering Beauty, everyone in the palace wakes up and the craziness begins. The kidsActing productions, featuring child actors, singers, and dancers, are known for their high music and production values. Theresa costumes seven shows a year for the troop; this is her first playwrighting credit. |
—07/07/03 |