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LAND FULL OF STORIES
A Conference & Celebration of Writing
About Place and Personal History
June 7-9, 2007
 

 Southwestern Writers Collection

March 6, 2007


In This Issue


About the Conference

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.

 

Recovering a Sense of Place

As we face the coming decades of climate change on our earth, recovering an authentic, meaningful sense of place may be one of our most significant tasks as caring, responsible humans. This conference offers many different ways to explore and write about your places, your landscapes, and your connections to the earth.

The full conference program is now available online. You can check it out here.

 

What Wildness is This Podcast

You can now listen to some of the selections from What Wildness is This, recently published by the University of Texas Press. Excerpts are read by the authors, with an introduction by Susan Wittig Albert. Go here for the download.

 

About SCN

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.

 

Conference e-Letter

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Field Writing Sessions
in the
Texas Hill Country


  Burleson
 

The Texas Hill Country is rich in natural beauty and human history. Join us for an optional pre-conference day of field-writing sessions, led by experienced facilitators who know their places. Choices include an urban park, a haiku walk along quiet trails, a wilderness area of woods and wetland, a glass-bottom boat on a spring-fed lake, a cave deep underground, and an historic Texas town. Lots to see, lots to write about!

See our conference program for more information.

What Wildness is This:
Women Write About the Southwest

What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest
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. Published by the University of Texas Press this month (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.

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Words From the Land

"Facts carry the traveler only so far: at last he must penetrate the land by a different means, for to know a place in any real and lasting way is sooner or later to dream it. That's how we come to belong to it in the deepest sense."
~William Least Heat-Moon~

"Maybe we need different places for different phases of our lives. Maybe cherished places remain alive inside us even if we have to move on.our attachment to the earth not thinned, but widened."
~Deborah Tall, "From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place"~

Have a quotation from the land to share? Send it to storycircle@storycircle.org, and we'll add it to our collection.

This e-Letter is a publication of the Story Circle Network (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). ©2007 Story Circle Network

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www.storycircle.org/WhatWildness/landstories/newsletters/070306.html

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This e-Letter is written and edited by Susan Albert, Peggy Moody, & Paula Yost.


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