True Words Annual Anthology: Call for Submissions (Deadline: February 15!)


All you reading and writing circle members, boot up your computers or pick up your pens! SCN's yearly anthology, True Words from Real Women, needs you! Each spring, we publish an anthology of stories and poetry to showcase the wonderful writing of our members.

Again this year, we will only be accepting submissions from women who are SCN members and are active members of an official SCN circle. If you are in an Internet Chapter writing or reading circle or you're a member of one of our official "free-range" circles, we want to hear from you. (Not sure if your circle is an SCN free-range circle? Check our website. Look for the "Story Circles in the US" link on our homepage navigation bar.) Because these official SCN story circles are at the heart of SCN's mission, we want to showcase circle members' work and encourage other members to form or join a writing or reading circle.

There is no theme for the anthology, and we accept prose and poetry and both short and long pieces, though greater consideration is given to shorter pieces. The word limit for prose is 1000 words and for poetry, 40 lines. We will accept up to three pieces per author for consideration. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008.

To avoid confusion with the True Words pages of the Journal, all email anthology submissions should be sent to anthology08@storycircle.org. Please be sure to include your name, city, phone, street address, and email address so that we may contact you if we have questions about your submission. Also, please tell us which circle you belong to. We look forward to receiving a wide sampling of stories and poems, representative of our increasingly diverse membership. Let us hear from you!

Eagerly anticipating your writing submissions,
Judy Whelley and Becca Taylor
co-editors, True Words Anthology