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About the Conference
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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.
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. June splashes the Texas Hill Country with warm days and wildflowers, and you'll find plenty of things to do.
Special conference rates are available at the Quality Inn in San Marcos. For more information or to make reservations, see Lodging.
Read all about the conference and its wonderful setting on our Conference web site.
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Workshop Proposal Deadline:
January 22
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The deadline for conference workshop proposals has been extended a week, to January 22. If you have an idea for a place-focussed writing workshop you'd like to offer, please check out our Call for Proposals, where we've posted a list of many different possibilities.
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About SCN
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The Story Circle Network is dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories. We carry out our mission through publications, a web site, classes, workshops, writing and reading circles, and woman-focused programs. Our activities empower women to tell their stories, discover their identities through their stories, and choose to be the authors of their own lives. For membership information, see our online membership form.
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Conference e-Letter
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We appreciate your help in spreading the word about A Land Full of Stories. Please forward this e-letter to anyone you know who might be interested in attending the conference.
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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.
See our conference program for more information.
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What Wildness is This:
Women Write About the Southwest
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What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest is a significant new anthology of writings by women, celebrating their experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. Slated for publication by the University of Texas Press in March 2007, this 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. The collection is made up of a variety of literary forms—memoir, creative non-fiction, essay, poetry—and includes pieces by both emerging and established writers.
Web Special: $13.37
(Don't want to order online? Go here for instructions on mailing your check.)
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This e-Letter is a publication of the Story Circle Network (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). ©2007 Story Circle Network
To read this e-letter on our website, click here:
www.storycircle.org/WhatWildness/landstories/newsletters/070109.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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