"Telling
HerStories" is all about encouraging women to tell their life stories.
And not only to tell their stories, but to embrace and share them. Some
women choose to publish their memoir, others write for themselves.
Whatever your ultimate publication goals are, writers learn best by
reading other writers. What better way to explore the wonderful world
of women's memoir than to host a book challenge?
Welcome to the HerStories Memoir Challenge! 4 books in 4 months--can you do that? If you need incentive (but, really, how many of us need bribery to read books?!), we'll have prizes! This challenge starts January 1, 2009, and runs through April.
- Choose 4 women's memoirs to read over a 4 month period. If you need some ideas, click on over to the Story Circle Book Reviews web site. If you want to read a memoir that isn't on our SCBR list, feel free to develop your challenge review into a review for the site!
- Post your book list on your blog and add it to our list below. We're using "herstories-challenge" (without the quotes) for our Technorati tag, if you want to tag your challenge-related posts. Oh, and feel free to grab the badge shown above to use on your blog!
- Check back here every month of the challenge to add your new review to our monthly post. But there's a catch here: I want you to summarize your review in 4 sentences. That's right. We're also a writing organization, after all, so hone your skills by summing up your review in 4 sentences. The review you post on your blog can be longer (and I'd encourage that!), but what you post here, on the challenge blog, will be only 4 sentences.
We'll post on the first of every month to kick off the month's activities and show you prizes.
Prizes
Every
month we'll offer two prizes. The first will be a random drawing from
each person who posted a link to their review in our comments. The
second prize will be chosen for the best 4-sentence review, as chosen
by our panel of esteemed judges. These top reviews will also be
featured on the Story Circle Book Review web site. Then, at the end of
the 4 months, we'll hold a final prize drawing, chosen randomly from
all of the entries over 4 months, for a year membership (new or
renewal) in Story Circle Network national and Internet organizations.
So, you improve your chances of winning the membership if you post your
review all 4 months.
Sign up
The
form will ask you for your name and URL. Feel free to put the name of
your blog in parentheses. When you enter your URL, make sure you point
directly to the post on your blog about the challenge.
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