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.

Click a class below to learn more and enroll.

Current & Upcoming Classes

Blogging

Blogging for Beginners
In this four week class, we will clarify the differences between a blog and a website, narrow down and choose the focus for your blog, create a bucket of ideas for future posts, and write and revise your first post…
Instructor: Amy Isaman

Fiction

Incorporating Personal Experience into Fiction
Students enrolling in this class should have some experience writing fiction and have a work in progress or a clear vision of a work they’d like to start. Using a workshop format each student will develop a story or part…
Instructor: Elise Schiller

Journaling/Self Discovery

Using the Gifts of Winter as a Source for Creative Exploration
Winter is a beautiful season that's rich with reflection, introspection, renewal, healing, connection, and a thirst for all that is light. There are so many gifts wrapped up in the season of winter with the capacity to uncover the depths…
Instructor: Tina Games
Writing Like A Madwoman: Awakening Your Sacred Story
This eight week course activates a writing journey from your head to your heart. Writing like a Madwoman™ sets the foundation for ongoing recovery from trauma. Each week you will build the strength to write the “hard stories” through conflictual…
Instructor: Marta Luzim

Memoir and Life Writing

Research and Write Your Family History
Over four weeks we’ll explore writing a family history: Why it matters, how to plan your research using the simple mnemonic of “People, Places, Paper,” and how to write well while respecting the family dynamics and boundaries involved. We’ll meet…
Instructor: Sarah White
The Love of Everyday Things
For this five-week class students will choose an object a week and tell its story through their own choice of format - poetry, prose, or essay - as they explore its connection to their past or future, to hopes and…
Instructor: Teresa Cutler-Broyles

Poetry

The Broadsheet/The Broadside
Students will create Broadsheets and Broadsides throughout the course using poems they have written before or during the course. We will use lecture, workshopping and students responding to other students’ Broadsheets/sides as vehicles. If the class is small, we’ll use…
Instructor: Katherine McCord

Writing Better Through Reading

Grimms for Grown-Up Gals
In this engaging program, we will read a different fairy tale each week, discussing its history, characters and archetypal symbols. Then, based on that tale, participants may choose from a variety of short writing exercises, by which to explore the…
Instructor: Joanne Martin
Learning to Use Literary Elements by Studying Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved
This class will focus on literary elements and how Nobel Laureate in Literature Toni Morrison uses them to enhance her fiction. This information can be applied to fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The class will also allow students to submit…
Instructor: Len Leatherwood

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

Story Circle Network also offers Webinars and Special Events

Coming January 30, 2021: 

Flash Bios: How to Present Your Own Story in 250 Words or Less 

Presented by award-winning author, speaker, and teacher Susan J. Tweit 

Only $25!

 

Click here to see details of upcoming webinars and events and to REGISTER.

Click here to propose a webinar.

Propose a Class

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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