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Women Writing for (a) Change

March 18, 2008

 In this issue (Click to view)

  Join us at Miami!

Author Circle - Opportunity

Upcoming Sampler

What's a Podcast?

Workshop - From Blended to Bonus

Join Us April 6th

Building Bridges with an online class

From the Mouths of Girls

Foundation

Prompt

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Mary Pierce Brosmer, Founding Director

Miami University Workshop

Join Mary Pierce Brosmer at Miami U...   Mary will give the Keynote Address and a Workshop at the Women's Leadership Luncheon , 11 am, Friday, March 28, 2008.  The event is free, but pre-registration is necessary.  Mary's topic:  "We're Running Out of Time:  An Urgent Call for Conscious Feminine Leadership in a Time of Planetary Crisis."   

In her keynote address, and a workshop session to follow, Mary will create a container for attendees to experience Conscious Feminine Leadership, and explore how its practices and values can transform re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic leadership, to life-giving and life-sustaining leadership.  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Author's Circle

Want to be part of an exciting WWfaC Foundation Event?   The Author's Circle is looking for committee members who are interested in helping host the Foundation's next fundraiser - a one-woman show based on the life of Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 groundbreaking book Silent Spring. We are looking for people to help with fundraising, marketing, publications creation, workshop coordination, and general help. The event is on Saturday, September 27, and we meet on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month from 5-7. Please contact Marissa Williams at 513.515.9921 or email by clicking this link.  

CREATIVE WRITING SAMPLER for Men & Women:  We welcome the curious, the harried, the I've-always-wanted-to-do-this-but-I'm-shy writer to our Monthly Third Saturday Samplers, from 1-2:30 PM.  FREE!  Next one:  April 19.  Please RSVP:  272-1171 x2.

Annette Wick facilitating technical programming for podcast including Kathy Wade and Mary Pierce Brosmer

Wondering What a Podcast Is?

Visit our website and listen!

New Workshop

From Blended to Bonus, a free writing workshop on April 5th for women and young women in blended families to explore their "families with a past" and their relationships within a new family network.  Annette Wick* will facilitate this Saturday sampler workshop using poetry, media studies and writing prompts to delve into the themes of kindness during loss and change, and debunking the myths while discovering desires. 

Date:   April 5, 2008 / Time:   10-12:30 p.m. / Cost:  Free / Location: WWf(a)C in Silverton.  /  Registration:  272-1171, ext. 2. 

*Annette Wick is an apprentice in the 2008 Women Writing for (a) Change Feminist Leadership Academy and facilitator for the technical programming of the WWf(a)C Radio Circle Podcasts. She has published her memoir, I'll Be in the Car: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Reclaiming Life and resides in Cincinnati with her newly blended family. Visit www.threearchpress.com for more information.

WE NEED YOU TO JOIN US!

You are invited...  to JOIN WRITERS from WWfaC at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Sunday, April 6, 2008, 6 pm - 7 pm for a FREE READAROUND.  In the cozy setting of the bookstore's fireplace, you will enjoy poems, stories, essays from a dozen readers - who are GOING PUBLIC with their writing!  Please come and support them.  And bring your friends - especially those who are new to WWfaC and curious about what we do.  Joseph-Beth is located in the Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood.  No RSVP necessary.

Building Bridges of Solidarity with Women in India:  a Virtual Online WWfaC Class... Apr. 10-June 7

Women Writing for (a) Change offers a creative writing experience that supports the lives of women for whom writing is, or is becoming, an important creative and spiritual practice. This class takes the proven techniques designed by Mary Pierce Brosmer and offers them within a cross-cultural online context.  We anticipate three distinct writing circles, each with six to eight participants, which will be meeting for a 90-minute online session each week for eight consecutive weeks. Participants spend an additional 90 minutes each week working online at a time of their own choosing. Each session is conducted by intensively trained and certified Women Writing for (a) Change faculty.

The three writing circles will be meeting online during the following time-slots:

(a) Thursdays (9:30 a.m. Oregon time, 12:30 p.m. Ohio time, 10:00 p.m. India time);

(b) Friday evening (3:30 p.m. Oregon time, 6:30 p.m. Ohio, 4:00 a.m. Sat. in India);

(c) Saturday morning (7:00 a.m. Oregon time, 10:00 a.m. Ohio, 7:30 p.m. India time).

For the Women Writing Online sessions beginning in April, our hope is to recruit women from India who have participated in writing circles and to join them with women here in the USA.  In India, writing circles are centers of liberation as they are for those of us who have participated in WWf(a)C.  Hence, there will be much to share together in circle that bridge cultures and national boundaries. Click here for details for participation.  Click here for enrollment details.

Be WOW-ed by YOUNG WOMEN'S words!!

Please come to the young women's OPEN-HOUSE READ-AROUNDS, FREE & OPEN to all ages and genders.              

GIRLS:  Saturday, Mar. 29, 3-4 PM. (changed from Mar. 22)

Foundation?

Curious about what our foundation does?  Click on FOUNDATION to learn!

Writing Prompt

Hidden

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

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In Naomi Shihab Nye's Poem "Hidden," she speaks of secrets and unnamed truths.  She ends by saying "No one sees/the fuel that feeds you."

Read the poem, open your journal and write for 10 minutes about a line that speaks to you.  Here are a couple of ideas:

1.  What names have you been hiding under your tongue?

2.  What ferns have you crushed until it became nearly (but not fully) invisible?

3.  What is the fuel that feeds you.

After a day or so, return to your journal and reread your 10 minute fast write.  Are there any gems there for you to keep?  Are there the seeds of a bigger story or poem?