The Power of Friendship
“Friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.” —bell hooks
Real Women Write is an annual anthology series of writing by SCN members, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, showcasing the talent and creativity of our own writing women. Story Circle Network values every woman’s story, and in Real Women Write we publish writing about both the individual life in all its uniqueness, and a woman’s life as it’s understood by all women.
The newest edition, volume 23 in the series, is The Power of Friendship. With a publishing date of November 2024, we ask writers to contemplate how having friends has affected their lives. One of the lessons taken from the isolation many felt during the pandemic is that friendship does matter. In fact, the Mayo Clinic recently conducted a study that determined that the lack of friends, which leads to loneliness, is as harmful to your health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. However, what defines a friendship? The answers are as varied as the number of women responding to the question.
This is a meaningful topic, and a great publication opportunity. Click here for guidelines and submission form.
Submissions for the 2024 edition of Real Women Write will open on May 1 and close on July 1.
Recent volumes in the Real Women Write series are available to the public on Amazon. Members have access to the entire archive of our anthologies. Join us or log in to view them.
