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Conference Website Launched
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A Land Full of Stories is a two-day conference that celebrates writing about place and personal history, in conjunction with the publication of Story Circle's anthology, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (storycircle.org/WomenWrite), to be published by the University of Texas Press, Spring 2007.
The conference will be held at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9, with pre-conference field-writing sessions on June 7 in the Austin and San Marcos areas. Read all about it on our just-launched Conference web site (storycircle.org/WomenWrite/landstories), and plan to join us for a wonderful weekend. (If you have an idea for a place-focussed writing workshop you might like to offer at the conference, be sure and check out our "Call for Proposals.")
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About SCN
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The Story Circle Network (storycircle.org) is dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories. We carry out our mission through publications, a web site, classes, workshops, writing and reading circles, and woman-focused programs. Our activities empower women to tell their stories, discover their identities through their stories, and choose to be the authors of their own lives. For membership information, go here: storycircle.org/frmjoinscn.shtml.
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Conference e-Letter
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Kathleen Dean Moore
Keynote Speaker
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Our Friday evening keynote speaker will be Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she teaches Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Nature. She is best known as the author of nature essays that explore our cultural and spiritual connections to the natural world—Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, and her most recent book The Pine Island Paradox. She is at work on a new book about the moral significance of wonder. At OSU, Moore directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.
"Moore's intense love for and close observation of nature combine with a keenly philosophical mind, reminiscent of the work of other fine philosopher-naturalists such as Thoreau, Dillard, and Muir." —Library Journal
See our conference program for more information.
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Words From the Land
"I should have felt a loneliness close to despair, there, in the night, in the rain, a thousand miles from home. What I felt instead was uncommon joy. What was there to long for, where all I wanted was what I suddenly had?—to be fully part of the night, joined by a song, by a simple shared song, to the loon, to the wolf, to the keening of all humankind, all of us together in this one infinite night, all of us floating in the same darkness, each of us, as we howl our loneliness, finding that we are not alone after all."
~Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox~
Have a quotation from the land to share? Send it to storycircle@storycircle.org, and we'll add it to our collection.
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This e-Letter is a publication of the Story Circle Network (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). ©2006 Story Circle Network
To read this e-letter on our website, click here:
storycircle.org/WomenWrite/landstories/newsletters/061018.html
Feel free to forward this e-Letter to friends and colleagues with appropriate credit to Story Circle Network.
This e-Letter is written and edited by Susan Albert, Peggy Moody, & Paula Yost.
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email: storycircle@storycircle.org
voice: 512-454-9833
web: storycircle.org
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