Story Circle

by, for, and about women

Online Classes

Writing Classes for Women

Since 1997, Story Circle Network has offered courses (onsite and online) in memoir, reminiscence, journaling, family stories, writing-as-healing, place writing and nature writing, writing for personal growth and spiritual development, and poetry. We also offer classes in fiction (using fiction techniques, fiction in memoir, and fictionalizing women’s lives) and teach general writing skills, organization, critical editing, and blogging.

Classes offered vary from term to term.

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Current & Upcoming Classes

Journaling/Self Discovery

Writing Through Your Transitions: Your Next Life Chapter
This class presents the therapeutic benefits of writing as a transition tool in the three phases of every transition: Letting Go, Moving In Between, Accepting the New Way. Students choose writing strategies to meet their needs in each phase, look…
Instructor: Leia Francisco
Drawing With Light-Painting With Words/Part I
Each of the five classes will start with instructions regarding the week’s photography assignment, followed by writing suggestions. Combining photography with a writing prompt will generate a conversation between the visual and the literary. Photographs can be taken on a…
Instructor: Ariela Zucker

Memoir & Life Writing

Writing About Your Mom Without Guilt
We will use prompts, exercises, photographs, quotations, and readings to stimulate writing in a workshop format. Each week, students will have a different assignment. Writing will be shared with all participants who are also encouraged to submit critiques of others.…
Instructor: Andrea Simon

Poetry/Fiction

The Sestina: A Way to Find the Truth of Your Writing
The Sestina is a kind of poem whereby you must give into what the poem wants to be. This form poem consists of six stanzas that are six lines each, and the end words must follow the end words you…
Instructor: Katherine McCord

Reflective Writing

Stories for Social Justice
The journaling process with targeted prompts each week will focus on the issues of bias within our lives. • Journaling, self-examination, reflection, reframing • Personal narratives, revealing incidents We will develop themes and self awareness through the journal prompts, and…
Instructor: Kate Farrell
Writing Truth to Power
The class will consider the consequences of speaking truth to power (a Quaker nonviolent approach to resistance); explore the concept of “earned facts,” your truth based on direct personal experience; and then write your truth in any format that speaks…
Instructor: Rhonda Wiley-Jones

Independent Study

Independent Study Program, Session 1
What is keeping you from your dreams? Do you have an idea for a story but don't know how to start? Do you have a draft but need an editor? Are you stuck on your summary? Cover letter? Query? Do…
Instructor: Lynn Goodwin
Independent Study Program, Session 2
What is keeping you from your dreams? Do you have an idea for a story but don't know how to start? Do you have a draft but need an editor? Are you stuck on your summary? Cover letter? Query? Do…
Instructor: Lynn Goodwin

Classes offered vary from term to term.

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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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