Story Circle

by, for, and about women

Propose a Class

If you are a skilled writer with experience in teaching memoir, journaling, life-based fiction, and other lifewriting forms online and are interested in joining our faculty, we’d like to hear from you.

 

If you wish to propose a webinar, workshop, or other shorter program, please use this form. To propose a class, use the form below.

We are now accepting proposals for these terms:

Fall Term: September 16 – November 11, 2024      

Deadline for Proposals:  August 4, 2024                                                                                                             

Propose a Class
What We're Looking For
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Submitting a Proposal

The class term covers an eight-week period. However, you might also consider proposing a three-unit “mini-course” or a four- or five-unit “short course.” For an idea of the kind of courses we’re interested in, check out our classes. See What We’re Looking For for additional possibilities. If you think you might like to teach in the program but want to try out an idea before you submit a proposal, please email us.

We have previously offered four-, six-, and eight-week courses at basic and advanced levels in editing and proofreading, memoir writing, and memoir-to-fiction. We are looking for interesting, creative ways to teach and learn the art of personal story, and especially for classes for more advanced writers. We are also looking for classes in fiction and poetry, taught by women who have published in these areas. Here are some possibilities we’ve thought of. We’re sure you can think of others.

  • Teach a class on writing family history. Each student chooses five or six family members, conducts interviews or writes from memory. Or your students write about places in their family’s past, or family traditions. You offer guidance, tips, critique, help.
  • Recipe collections are fun! Offer a class that shows students how to gather, edit, assemble, and tell stories about their families’ favorite recipes. In a second-level (advanced) course, help them learn how to publish their books.
  • You know about blogging? Share that knowledge (and inspiration) with people who are just getting started.
  • Do your talents include proofreading and editing texts? Many people would like to brush up their editorial skills. You can help.
  • Do you teach lifewriting as a means of healing and reframing experience? Share your knowledge and experience with students online.
  • Offer an intensive class on self-publishing, guiding students through the creation of an eBook or POD book.
  • Are you a published travel writer? A food writer? Teach a class on travel writing or food writing.
  • Do you write book reviews or how-to articles? These are also good subjects for a course.
  • Have you taught fiction or poetry classes in onsite settings? Adapt your material to an online class on writing short stories or poems.

Student tuition is set by SCN and scaled according to the length of the course, content, instructor expertise and experience, and special requirements. SCN pays the instructor 56%, half when the class begins, half on completion. SCN retains 33% for administrative fees and pays 11% to the Online Classes Coordinator. Upon arrangement with SCN, the instructor may charge additional fees for special materials or other requirements; this nonrefundable fee will be collected from the students at the time of registration and paid to the instructor when the class begins. SCN may charge additional administrative fees that are not paid through to the instructor.

Please fill out the form below and click “Submit Online Writing Class Proposal.” We’ll read it carefully and ask you for additional information. If you are proposing a class you’ve already taught for us, please do use this form. However, you may omit the biographical information (last three text boxes; just put “same as before” in those fields).

Don’t forget to make a copy for yourself. You can also print the screen that you will see after you submit your form—it will contain all the information you type on this page. We will reply to you as soon as possible.

Deadlines

  • Fall 2024: 08/04/2024
  • Summer 2024: 07/01/2024
  • Winter 2025: 11/10/2024
  • Spring I 2025: 02/02/2025
  • Spring II 2025: 04/06/2025
  • Summer 2025: 06/15/2025
  • Falls 2025: 08/03/2025
  • Winter 2026: 11/09/2025

Submit Class Proposal

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    (People subscribing to our e-letter sometimes believe they are members when they are not. Membership is not required for your proposal to be evaluated, although it does suggest a familiarity with and commitment to SCN's mission.)
  • (2-3 sentence summary of class content, to be posted on your class web page. Check current offerings for examples)
  • (3-4 sentences offering specifics of content, instruction methods, to be posted on your class web page. )
  • Click the + to add goals, one per line. Students who successfully complete this class will be able to do the following.
  • (reading/responding to each other's writing, sharing stories with fellow students, posting photos, etc)? If yes, we will set up a Yahoo Group site for your use.
  • In the box below, describe the means by which you will deliver your instructional materials, receive students' written work, comment, and communicate. Please specify any materials you will require in addition to your instructional materials (i.e. books, printed matter, audio, or DVDs that the students must purchase).
  • - A full-length class should be organized into 8 units of instruction, which you will teach over eight calendar weeks.
    - You may propose a shorter class of 6, 5, 4, or 3 units, depending on your topic and the way you intend to cover it.
    - Provide full details of each unit of material that you intend to offer and describe what will be expected from the students—writing, participation, sharing, etc.—for each unit: (A unit consists of instructional material you deliver to the students and your feedback/response to their work. To avoid rewriting, please do NOT use the term "lesson" in your proposal.) This information will be summarized on your class web page in just enough detail so that students can see what the class is to cover. You will provide them a detailed schedule when they have enrolled.
    - Use line breaks / carriage returns between units so we can read your proposal more easily—skip 1 or 2 lines after each unit.
  • Class dates. Tell us when your class will begin and when it will end. (See "Deadlines" above, where we have listed the start/end dates of our terms.)
  • MM slash DD slash YYYY
  • MM slash DD slash YYYY
  • (e.g. number of hours per lesson or per week)
  • Skill-sets 
    Please click the + to add skill-sets and software/hardware required, one per line. (beginning, intermediate, advanced writing or computer skills; Word, Internet, email, printer, fax, etc.)

  • Maximum/minimum number of students

    (minimum: number below which you won't teach the course):
  • (If you prefer to email this, please email it to us and note that below.) Note: you MUST put something into this text box, even if only the phrase "emailing resume."
  • Links 
    Please click the + to provide links to your published work as a sample of your writing (If you prefer to email this, please email it to us and note that below.)
  • We may post this on your class web page. See faculty listings for examples.
  • Please click the + to add your social media (Twitter, FB, Pinterest, Google+, etc.) addresses below, one per line. We promote each class but we expect teachers to actively promote their classes on these sites and actively promote the whole program.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.