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The Community of the Land
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As we face the coming decades of climate change on our earth, creating an active, passionate community of the land may be one of our most significant tasks. Part of the work of community involves sharing our stories of the land. This conference offers many different ways to explore and write about your places, your landscapes, and your connections to the earth.
"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. The Texas Hill Country is bright with wildflowers in June, 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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Early Registration Ends April 15
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Information and online registration for the conference is available here. Early registration ends April 15, so do yourself a favor and sign up now.
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What Wildness is This Podcast
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The conference celebrates the publication of Story Circle's new anthology, What Wildness is This. You can now listen to some of the selections from the book. Excerpts are read by the authors, with an introduction by Susan Wittig Albert. Go here for the download.
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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.
If a friend has forwarded this to you, add your e-address and click below to get your own subscription.
You are receiving this e-Letter because you subscribed to it, or because you are a subscriber to our SCN National e-Letter. To unsubscribe: see link at the very bottom of this email.
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Join us in historic Gruene, TX
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Writing about place takes us to interesting places, like this historic Texas town, settled in the 1870s on the scenic Guadalupe River.
Gruene is the site of our Thursday evening field-writing session.
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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. 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.
Order the book.
Your purchase of this book helps to support the work of Story Circle Network.
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Words From the Land
"Out here we are poised on an edge between north and south, east and west. And there's something, a resiliency of the bones, a willingness to pick up and start again, a turning back to take another look at old habits, remedies that just might work the next time."
~Joan Shaddox Isom, "Out Here on This Edge, Terrain.Org, Issue No. 15, Fall/Winter 2004" ~
"We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this.and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need."
~Barry Lopez~
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). ©2007 Story Circle Network
To read this e-letter on our website, click here:
www.storycircle.org/WhatWildness/landstories/newsletters/070330.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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