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Women Writing for (a) Change

March 5, 2008

 In this issue (Click to view)

  Celebrating International Women's Day

Young Women WOW us 

Exciting Announcements - Author's Circle

Poetry Book Club this Saturday

Building Bridges with an online class

Creative Writing Sampler 

Opportunities Outside the Community

Prompt

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Kathy Wade, Annette Januzzi Wick, Mary Pierce Brosmer

WWfaC Celebrates International Women's Day

Her Circle Ezine is hosting a virtual festival in celebration of International Woman's Day.  From March 7^th - 9^th, they will post podcasts for guests to download, including one from Women Writing for (a) Change, featuring the writing of Kathy Wade, which will be available March 8^th.  Visit http://www.hercircleezine.com/events/ for the schedule of events.

Also, visit our website for additional podcasts! http://www.womenwriting.org/pages/content/audio.html

Want to be WOW-ed by YOUNG WOMEN'S words??

Please come to the young women's OPEN-HOUSE READ-AROUNDS

TEENS:  Sunday, Mar. 9, 3-4 PM.

GIRLS:  Saturday, Mar. 22, 3-4 PM.

FREE & OPEN to all ages and genders.

Kaiulani Lee

Author's Circle

The Author's Circle is back! Two years ago, we sponsored a talk by Jean Shinoda Bolen and raised approximately $5000 for the Capital Campaign. This year, we are organizing a play by Kaiulani Lee based on the life of Rachel Carson.  Carson authored the 1962 groundbreaking book Silent Spring, a seminal work for the environmental movement that fits wonderfully with the green initiatives going on in Cincinnati this year.

The play, entitled Sense of Wonder, has been touring the US for 10 years and was recently highlighted on Bill Moyers' Journal. To view more about the play, visit http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/profile3.html

The play will be held at the Carnegie in downtown Covington on Saturday, September 27th, and an optional dinner will be available at Arnold's in downtown Cincinnati. Watch for future ticket sales.

For this fundraiser, our goal is to raise $20,000. So far, we have raised over $3000; our lead donor is Duke Energy. If you would like to donate to this event please contact Marissa Williams at mmcnamara646@yahoo.com

More from the Author's Circle

The Author's Circle is looking for committee members interested in helping to host the Foundation's next fundraiser, Sense of Wonder. 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 at mmcnamara646@yahoo.com

NEW!  Poetry Book Club Sampler ~ Saturday, March 8^th

COME TO a Free introductory session of the Poetry Book Club, 1:00 ~ 2:30 P.M.  Featured Poet: Mary Oliver... Featured Book: New and Selected Poems Volume Two ... Featured Poems:  "In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind" and "Patience."

The Poetry Book Club, facilitated by FLA participants Tina Holsapple and Bronwyn Park, will meet on the second Tuesday of every month, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at WWF(a)C.  We will read and discuss selected poems from a book of poetry at each session (no need to read the entire book ahead of time). Included will be time for reflection, discussion, writing and sharing our own poetry and prose.  The fee for the Book Club is $25.00 per class or $60.00 for all three.  To RSVP, please call 513-272-1171x2.

Aaron Rose-Milavec, Phebe Beiser, Mary Pierce Brosmer and Karen Waters.

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. Details for participation can be found at http://www.catherinecollege.net/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=428.  Details for enrollment are at http://www.catherinecollege.net/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=374.

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:  March 15^th.  Please RSVP:  272-1171 x2.

OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE THE WWFAC COMMUNITY...

CREATIVITY RETREAT WEEKEND - Mar. 14 - 16, 2008 in Rising Sun, Indiana:  Mary Pierce Brosmer invites you to consider a weekend workshop where Mary is a co-presenter.  The workshop is focused on developing and expanding creativity through writing, music & visual arts experiences.  (Co-presenter, Eric Maisel).  To register call Joyce Tull at 513-721-2772.

Cincinnati Parenting Magazine (formerly All About Kids magazine) is relaunching its Web site and seeking submissions from WWfaC writers.  Topics do not need to be limited to parenting, children or motherhood.  A link for WWfaC will be displayed on the site.  Please submit pieces directly to their editor, Jason Jones, at jasonjones@aakmagazine.com.

Best of Cincinnati - If you are interesting in writing a piece for the 25^th anniversary Annual Best of Cincinnati coffee table book, please contact Lila Marcus at lilamarcus@yahoo.com.

Writing Prompt

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.

We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.

It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women.

At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.

Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we put ourselves back together once again at the table.

The table has been a house in the rain, an umbrella in the sun.

Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory.

We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here.

At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

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The Prompts:

So what happens at your kitchen table? 

Maybe your kitchen table has a story to tell, or maybe you do, about the kitchen table you dream of creating.