SCN’s publishing program has been developed over the past 25 years to offer opportunity to emerging authors by supporting and highlighting the writing of SCN members and those who share our mission. Participation offers education in the professional publishing process. It also provides the excitement of sharing one’s work. SCN books demonstrate the excellence of our writers and the powerful purpose behind this organization.
The Power of Friendship is the 2024 edition of SCN’s Real Women Write member anthology. It includes prose and poetry offering reflections on the importance of friendship in women’s lives. What defines a friendship? The answer is as varied as the number of women responding to that question. More…
Mothers and Mentors: The Art of Nurturing is the 2023 edition of SCN’s Real Women Write member anthology. It includes 85 pieces of prose and poetry offering reflections on an essential human activity—the many and varied ways we guide and care for the development and growth of life. The collection also considers what it means to want for care, to lack support, even to be harmed by those meant to nurture you. More…
Seeing Through Their Eyes is the 2022 edition of SCN’s Real Women Write member anthology. It includes 75 pieces of prose and poetry focused on the quality of empathy. This human capability offers hope and insight in the face of the world’s challenges. You will be moved and changed by these meaningful responses to that powerful topic. More…
Kitchen Table Stories 2022 is an SCN cookbook containing 80 recipes and their connected stories from 45 member-authors of widely varied backgrounds and experiences. Its unusual range of recipes and personal stories will delight cooks everywhere. More…
In the 2021 Real Women Write anthology, Beyond COVID: Leaning Into Tomorrow, member-authors were responding to the first year of the global pandemic—its isolation, uncertainty, and social fractures. More…
Real Women Write: Living on Covid Time is filled with stories, essay, and poems that capture moments filled with profound challenges and changes as COVID-19 moved from rumor to life-altering reality, and together they form a small chapter in a humanity-sized story. More…
In Real Women Write: Growing / Older you will find 60 pieces by 45 authors, all responding to the profoundly significant experience of growth that comes to us with the passing of time. More…
Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories is a vibrant anthology of insightful women’s lifewriting. These 76 stories, essays, and poems were all written by members of Story Circle Network, 2009-2016. Edited by Susan Schoch, Foreword by Susan Wittig Albert. More…
Winner, 2008 Willa Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction
The prose and poetry in What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest celebrates women’s experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. This anthology illuminates the rich diversity of environments of the Southwest through the writing of women authors who explore the congruence of where they are and who they are. More…
Starting Points: A Year of Writing Prompts is a collection of fifty-two quotations from wise women, accompanied by thoughts inspired by those wise words, and some questions for you—enough rich material to keep you going for at least five writing sessions. Compiled by SCN founder and best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert. More…
With Courage and Common Sense presents an extensive selection of memoirs which describe women’s experiences and chronicle far-reaching changes in the ways that women participated in the world during the twentieth century. They show how women learned to surmount obstacles, to courageously make the most of the opportunities that came their way, and to move quietly and wisely beyond the limits that were imposed upon them. More…
Based on interviews with eighty women who left positions of leadership and authority to become artists, teachers, writers, and small business owners, Work of Her Own is a guide to career fulfillment that shows the feasibility of living outside a male-dominated work environment to create work that is more personal and more rewarding. More…
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