Women Writing, Changing Lives
Building bridges of understanding & solidarity with women worldwide

A message from Moderator Phebe Beisner

Special Offer

Join Women Writing to explore writing as a way to evoke, within a safe circle of sisters, your stories of injustice and your hope for healing in a broken world.

The online writing circle will take place for 90 minutes on six consecutive Thursdays (6:00 a.m. Oregon time, 9:00 a.m. New York time, 18:30 India, 23:00 Sydney); next session begins 15 July 2010.

Fee will be $80 in countries where the currency is in "dollars" or £50 where the currency is in "pounds" or €50. All others will receive a scholarship.

Please write to Moderator@fuse.net for information and for reserving your place.

In India, writing circles are centers of liberation as they are for us here at Catherine College. Hence, there will be much to share together in the three anticipated writing circles that will bridge cultures and national boundaries. Dr. Vaijayanti Gupta writes as follows:

The literary landscape of India is one of the most exciting, yet daunting and complex ones in the world, with over 18 officially recognized languages, over 400 dialects and a 5000 year old culture that has evolved differently in different regions of the country. Throughout the region's history, women have excelled at literature, but writing has traditionally been regarded the domain of men. As elsewhere in the world, women's writing in India has been multi-faceted, but often persisting secretly and sometimes in defiance and pain. . . . (www)

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Payment by Credit Card

The easiest way to make your payment is through a credit card. Our system is very secure and you will receive two email acknowledgements: one from us and one from the online bank.

If you experience any problem while making your payment, please, write to the Registrar here: and she will help set it up for you!

Non-returnable Tuition Policy

Given the purposeful size and composition of each class, anyone dropping out or falling behind in a given class reduces the learning for all concerned. At times, however, we understand that one might have to drop out or fall behind due to unforseen and tragic circumstances. We regret to say, however, that tuition cannot be returned in this instance due to the fact that mentors and tutors have been hired and potential students have been turned away. In the case where someone needs to leave a class due to unforseen and tragic circumstances, they can receive a partial credit toward a future class if they notify their tutor or the Registrar of their circumstances in a timely fashion.

Why join an online writing circle?

Women writing, lives changing offers a creative writing experience that supports the lives of women for whom writing is, or is becoming, an important liberative and spiritual practice.

This writing circle takes the proven techniques designed by Mary Pierce Brosmer and offers them within a cross-cultural online context. If you live in Cincinnati, please visit the center in Silverton and enroll in a face-to-face class. If you're not in Cincinnati, then the international circles will be best for you.

Our online participants will be meeting for a 90-minute online session each week for six 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 graduates of the Feminist Leadership Academy. 3 cr.hrs. See what former participants were saying.

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Sponsorship payment

If the course or qualification you've chosen is geared towards your job or developing your career, you could ask your employer to sponsor you by paying some or all of the fees. We'll send you information and a sponsorship form on request.