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Women Writing for (a) Change

May 7, 2008

 In this issue (Click to view)

 

Summer Programs - Adults

Summer Program - Young Women

Special Weekend Workshop

Upcoming Sampler

Join Us - Virtual School Read-Around

Tips from Author's Circle

News from the West

Retreat to Michigan

Kudos - Anni Gibson

Standing Women

Prompt


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Summer Camp, 2007

Summer Programs for Adults

 

It's time to sign up!  Spaces are available, but filling up fast. Register online with a credit card or call Katie at 513-272-1171 x2 to register. 

   

Summer Women-only Tues. Evening  6-10-2008 to 07-22-08 7-9:30 pm


Summer Women Only Weds. Daytime  6-11-2008 to 07-23-08 10 AM - 12:30 PM

 

Summer - Thurs. Evening Co-ed 6-12-2008 to 07-24-08 7-9:30 PM

 

Week-long Summer Writing Retreat Women Only 7-13-2008 to 07-19-08 - Knobs Haven Retreat Center, Nerinx, Ky.

 

Young Women's Summer Camps

 

Register today for these popular summer camps!  Click on the class to register or call Katie at 513-272-1171 x2. 

 

Summer Full Day for Girls (entering grades 4 -7) - June 9-13 9 AM - 4 PM

 

Summer Full Day for Teens (entering grades 8 - 10) - June 16-20  9 AM - 4 PM

 

Summer Half-day for Girls (entering grades 4 - 7) - June 23-27  9 AM - 12:30 PM

 

Summer Half-Day for Teens (entering grades 8 - 10) - June 23-27 1:30 PM - 5 PM

 

Summer Young Women's Week (entering grades 11 - first year college)- July 7 - 11 9 AM - 4 PM

 

Programs for Young Women are supported in part by:  Fine Arts Fund (www.fineartsfund.org) and The Ohio Arts Council. 

 

 



A Special Workshop This Weekend

Celebrate Mother's Day with Women Writing for (a) Change!  Saturday May 10, 2008, 1 - 4 pm - Mothers and Daughters Writing Together (grandmothers, aunts, nieces, etc.)  - Appropriate for ages 9 and up.  Cost: $50 per participant.  Open to women and girls only.  Register here or call 272-1171.

 

Virtual Class Read-Around!

Please join the virtual class of Women Writing for (a) Change for its public read-around on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 10:30-11:30 AM.  (7:30 am PDT and 8:00 pm in India).  This read-around is open to women only.  For more information, email Karen Waters at kt@womenwritingwest.com.  Click for technical instructions.

   

Author's Circle Tips for Going Green

 

1)  To save energy in your home or office, turn off the lights when you leave the room.  To save even more energy replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs which use 75 percent less energy and last 10 times as long as incandescent bulbs.

 

2)  The average US office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper a year.  Make it a habit to print on both sides or use the back side of old documents for faxes, scrap paper, or drafts. Avoid color printing and print in draft mode whenever feasible.

 

3)  Skip the bottled water. For every one million bottles of water that are manufactured and shipped to consumers, 18.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions are pumped into the air.

 

And remember to Save the Date for:

 

A Sense of Wonder

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY

 

This one-woman play by Kaiulani Lee honors the life and legacy of Rachel Carson who is credited with advancing the environmental movement.  If you are interested in being a donor for this fundraiser please contact Marissa McNamara Williams.

 

 

Upcoming Samplers

 

Register for any of our Free Samplers by clicking or call 513-272-1171 

 

  • Co-ed Sampler - 5-17-2008  1:00-2:30 PM
  • Young Women and their Parents 5-24-2008 1:00-2:30 PM


Karen Waters At Portland International Women's Day

Affiliate News  

 

Karen Waters of Women Writing for (a) Change in Oregon recently participated in Portland's International Women's Day event yesterday.  She had a table display and generated a lot of interest in the school.  That event led to another - a table at an arts event at the Expo Center.

 

Women Writing for (a) Change Up North, Anni Gibson's program in Michigan, is accepting enrollment for a summer retreat.  Click here for details in pdf format.

 

In other news...

 

Congratulations to Anni Gibson.  Her poem, "I'm Not Really a Waitress" has been selected for publication by the University of North Carolina/Charlotte literary magazine.  Says Anni, "After many, many rejections, this is fabulous news and has me walking on air."  Way to go Anni!

 

Inspired by the peace-seeking roots of Mother's Day, Standing Women will be standing for peace in Hyde Park this Sunday.  For more information, contact Jane Masters at 513-561-9729, standingwomencincinnati@yahoo.com, or www.standingwomen.org - search Cincinnati.

 


Julia Ward Howe

Writing Prompt

 

As Mother's Day approaches, take a few minutes to contemplate Julia Ward Lowe's Mother's Day Proclamation.  Take one like that jumps out at you and write for ten minutes; a fastwrite without censoring.   Put it aside for a week then come  back and see what you have  - could it be a poem or a story? 

 

 

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession.  As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.


Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870

 

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