By: Story Circle Network Members
ISBN: 979-8986130200
Story Circle Network, 2023
The world needs nurturing, now more than ever. The impulse to “care for and encourage the growth or development” of any life provides nourishment to all life everywhere. From protecting our planet-mother Earth to rearing a healthy child, we give and receive nurturing throughout our lifetime, and we feel the power of nurturers in our lives. Teachers appear, and helpers make a difference. Helping life to thrive is an essential part of being human.
For this issue of Real Women Write, SCN’s member-authors reflected on the varied way—good, bad, and ugly—that we mother or are mothered, and on the significance of giving and receiving mentoring guidance and care.
About the Author
Real Women Write is an annual anthology showcasing the talent and creativity of Story Circle Network members, and includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. SCN 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 2023 edition of Real Women Write is volume 22 in the series. Titled Mothers and Mentors: The Art of Nurturing, it includes 85 pieces of prose and poetry from 68 SCN women writers offering reflections on an essential human activity—the many and varied ways we guide and care for the development and growth of life. The collection also considers what it means to want for care, to lack support, even to be harmed by those meant to nurture you.
To learn more about Story Circle Network Members and her work, please see www.storycircle.org
