Story Circle

by, for, and about women

Publications

Sharing Our Stories

“I’d always known storytelling was important to me, but I’ve finally realized that it’s central to who I am—it’s how I understand myself and the world, how I learn, how I pass on what I know. I feel that I know myself in a new and deeper way—that I have knowledge I can use to bring deeper meaning to the various parts of my life.”

— Sherry Wachter

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One Woman’s Day

Read about the ordinarily extraordinary lives of real women, recorded by Story Circle members.

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Telling HerStories: The Broad View

Authors and teachers share their knowledge and passion for helping women tell the stories of their lives.

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Read Our Quarterly Journal

Story Circle Sample Journal

The Story Circle Journal is a quarterly members-only newsletter, published in March, June, September, and December. It is written by and for women with stories to tell and designed to encourage readers to become writers, guide women to set down their true stories, support women’s creativity, and make possible the sharing of women’s lives. Each issue of the Journal includes ideas for writing chapters of your life’s story, reviews of helpful books, readers’ writings, news about SCN activities, and a calendar of coming events. Read a sample issue.

Read Our Anthology

Real Women Write is an annual anthology by SCN members showcasing the talent and creativity of our own writing women. SCN values every woman’s story, and in Real Women Write we publish writing about both the individual life in all its uniqueness, and a woman’s life as it is understood by all women.

The selections in the 2020 volume, Living on Covid Time, capture moments as COVID-19 moved from rumor to life-altering reality, and together they form a small chapter in a humanity-sized story.

Growing/Older, the 2019 volume, contains writings in response to the profoundly significant experience of growth that comes to us with the passing of time.

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Our Books

SCN Podcasts

We invite you to listen to the many voices of our membership as they explore their lives and world through writing and sharing. We hope that by sharing our stories, we bring insight to each other’s lives. It is by sharing that we become stronger and more in tune with ourselves. We come from all walks of life to beckon our creativity and weave our stories.

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Our Editors

  • Susan Schoch
    Susan Schoch
    Anthology Editor
  • Jo Virgil
    Jo Virgil
  • Robin Wittig
    Robin Wittig
  • Paula Stallings Yost
    Paula Stallings Yost
    Periodicals Editor
Susan Schoch
Anthology Editor

A member since 2002, Susan has been the Editor of SCN’s quarterly Journal and our annual Anthology since 2014. She joined the Board of Directors in 2016 as chair of Publications, and is also a frequent reviewer and editor at Story Circle Book Reviews. Susan has been a freelance writer and editor for 30 years. She specializes in personal history and biography, most recently The Clay Connection: Jim and Nan McKinnell. Susan shares SCN's commitment to women's growth through the empowering focus of writing and recognizing women's stories.

Jo Virgil

Jo Virgil has been a Story Circle Network member for many years and now serves as editor for True Words and as a SCN Board Member (Publication and Program member). Jo has a Master's Degree in Journalism and has worked as a reporter, as a writing workshop teacher, as Community Relations Manager for Barnes & Noble, and as Community Outreach Coordinator for the Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities. One of her favorite messages was from one of her journalism professors who said, "Stories are what make us matter."

Robin Wittig

Robin is the editor of the SCN Journal and Senior Director of Community Programs at Pikes Peak YMCA. She lives in Woodland Park, CO. In addition to her work with the Journal, Robin does the layout for the annual anthology, Real Women Write, and creates the print program for "Stories From the Heart."

Paula Stallings Yost
Periodicals Editor

Paula is a former and current board member. She has presented at conferences and Writing From Life events; taught in the online class program; served as co-editor of a couple of Story Circle anthologies; and volunteers as the coordinator of the Sarton Award Program. She also is a personal historian who helps families and individuals write and publish their life stories. Visit her website.