The Power of Friendship
Sharing Stories, Sharing Lives
in Prose and Poetry from Story Circle Network
There is power and meaning in everybody’s story.
— Oprah Winfrey
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 2024 edition of Real Women Write is volume 23 in the series. Titled The Power of Friendship, it will be published on Amazon.com in both print and digital formats. It offers reflections on an essential human connection—mutual compassionate support between two people.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and its only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anaïs Nin
“Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.” —Dorothy Parker
Friendships can develop at all stages of life, and we make friends in all types of settings, including school, work, and in social situations. But are these relationships necessary? 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.
For the 2024 issue of our annual anthology, Real Women Write, we ask you to contemplate how having friends has affected your life. Whether that has involved a lifelong connection with a BFF, lessons learned from dealing with toxic friends, the betrayal of friendships gone bad, an appreciation of how old and new friends have shaped you, or something entirely different, reflections on friendship provide a powerful emotional lens through which to capture your insights and memories.
Submissions accepted May 1–July 15, 2024. Entry form below.
The 2023 edition of Real Women Write, Mothers and Mentors: The Art of Nurturing, is available here.
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