Story Circle

by, for, and about women

Online Classes

Writing Classes for Women

Since 1997, Story Circle Network has helped women tell their stories through memoir, fiction, poetry, journaling, and personal storytelling. Our online classes give you the guidance, tools, and community to write with confidence and keep your creative momentum going.

Classes rotate each term, from short 90-minute webinars to multi-week series. Browse our current offerings and enroll in the class that fits your goals and schedule.

All webinar registrants will be sent a link to the webinar after the event.

Explore Our Current Offerings

February Webinars

Feb 11 – Webinar: Story Spinning
Harvesting Your Experience and Harnessing Its Power
Feb 18 – Webinar: The Substack Homecoming
Building Community Through Story, Soul & Slow Connection. Create a Substack that people can find, as well as one where they'll want to stay and engage.
Feb 25 – Webinar: From the Bedroom to the Page: Writing About Sex
This workshop is an interactive and experiential workshop to explore the use of sexual scenes and imagery in creative writing milieux. It includes adult materials but is not focused on pornography or even erotica - rather, the uses of sexual…

Women's History Month Writing Series

Full March Series Registration – Closes March 3
Four Wednesdays. Four Perspectives. Four Weeks of Writing Women into History. In honor of Women’s History Month, Story Circle Network is offering a four-part live webinar series devoted to historical writing in all its forms—family history, historical fiction, memoir, and…
March 04 ONLY – Storylines & Bloodlines: Turning Family History into Story
Storylines & Bloodlines explores how to turn family history—documents, memories, rumors, and silences—into compelling narrative. In this one-session workshop, novelist and essayist Suzanne Uttaro Samuels guides participants through finding the emotional core of inherited stories, shaping real people into vivid…
March 11 ONLY – In the Trenches with Historical Fiction
In historical fiction, you want to stay true to the period but resonate with modern readers. To feel like life, not a history book. So, how do our characters’ words capture the era? How does society decree they will relate…
March 18 ONLY – Is It Your Story to Tell?
Authors who hope to be published need to understand the current concerns shaping the decisions publishers and agents make when it comes to the manuscripts they choose to acquire. This lecture will explore the issue of sensitivity readers, which has…
March 25 ONLY – HerStory – Memoir or Fiction?
As women writers reach a certain age we all have stories to tell. It could be rooted in events that qualify as historical, a significant life event, or a family story that haunts. Your story is HerStory, it’s universal, write…

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Our faculty members, all women, are experienced teachers and published writers with a special interest in helping women explore their lives. If you are a skilled writer who is experienced in teaching memoir, journaling, life-based fiction, and other lifewriting forms and are interested in joining our faculty, we would like to hear from you.

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