• Books on Storytelling - My personal recommendations with pages of sources on Tricksters and Tall Tales, Raven Stories, Fairytale interpretation, and Reference volumes as well.
• Eldrbarry's Storytelling in Church Situations
• Wendy Welch's Getting and holding the nursery child's attention: Storytelling to Pre-Schoolers
• What is the Definition of Storytelling? A definition discussed by members of the National Storytelling Membership Association several years back.
• What is Story Telling?: The non-verbal aspects of telling A description by Chuck Larkin
• An Article on Storytelling For Scout leaders by Aline G. Chan - A Good Summary!
• The Virtual Campsite Scouting Pages How to do Campfire Programs
• Heather Forest's StoryArts: Storytelling in the Classroom Lots of stories and Aesop's fables, curriculum ideas, articles, resources and links - and lovely graphics!
• Dianne de Las Casas' The Story Connection Storytelling activities and links.
• Karen Chace's Storybug.Net has sections both for Teachers and for Kids
• The Storytelling FAQ Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about telling stories and storytelling - an extensive resource of material.
• Eldrbarry's Joy of Storytelling has lots of links to stories

Connections to Storytellers and Storytelling Organizations and Publications

STORYTELLING RESOURCES ONLINE



• The Storytelling Ring will allow you to visit other sites on the Internet that are dedicated to the art of storytelling. Each is connected to the others in a daisy-chained ring, allowing you to go from one to the other and finally back to the first by simply pressing the NEXT button on each site. You will find me along the way!
• Doug LipmanThe Storytelling Coach - his site has a number of excellent articles on storytelling, professional telling, and coaching storytellers.
• The Oral Tradition Storytelling Page Are stories owned or something to freely pass on? A Discussion.
• Aaron Shepherd's Author Online Page Stories and other material. See His Readers Theatre Page.
• Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder Travelling Storytellers in Vermont. See Tim's article on Storytelling in the classroom, as well as Openings and Closings for Stories, and a list of College courses available.
• Sean Buvala's Storyteller Net Story of the Week - weekly "Village Post"- articles, tips and reviews. - Bulletin Board - Interactive Stories - Calendar of Events - a directory of storytellers and lots of free web pages for Storytellers. Sean is a Christian storyteller.
• Harlynne Geisler Storyteller and author, editor of The Story Bag - she has an exellent book on how to be a professional Storyteller full of practical howto's.
• Vineyard Video Productions has produced 3 fine videotapes with Jay O'Callahan - one of them, "A Master Class in Storytelling", 33 minutes with workshop guide - is considered one of the best ever done on the subject.

• Storytellling Card Games (A part of Hatter's Book pages)
  • Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game by Altas Games
  • Oh-Cards has a variety of sets of Cards that can be used to inspire stories: See the Oh, Saga, Mythos, 1001, and Persona decks

• Copyright digital slide rule
• The Storytell List Service/b> can be joined. There are ongoing discussions of storytelling topics by storytellers, librarians teachers and others interested in storytelling. Be prepared for a lot of postings from this lively "community".
• Story-Lovers.com/a> Jackie Baldwin's site has extensive material archived from Storytell, as well as much more. It contains references to hundreds of categories and thousands of stories, suggested by professional storytellers, librarians, healers, environmentalists and teachers from all around the world. You'll find full stories, abridged stories, book references, and descriptions of actual experiences and helpfpul hints in telling these tales.

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  STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

  The National Storytelling Network is a membership organization and has a Storynet onlinet. They sponsor the annual nation-wide storytelling Tellebrations held annually in November in many cities, a National Storytelling Conference, as well as the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn. in October.
  Address: National Storytelling Network, 132 Boone Street, Suite 5, Jonesborough, TN 37659; 1-800-525-4514; fax: 423-753-9331.

• Storytelling Magazine is published by the NSN. It contains stories, articles about telling stories and storytellers, calendars of storytelling events and conferences around the nation and numerous advertizements of tellers and publications, and is published bi-monthly.
  

• Storytelling World. A twice a year published Journal on Storytelling from Eastern Tennessee State University- This magazine is now offered as a membership benefit for the National Storytelling Network. For information, inquire through the website: http://www.storynet.org or e-mail nsn@storynet.org. Questions specific to Storytelling World only may be answered through the website: www.etsu.edu/stories or through e-mail at fjoy@preferred.com.

• The Storytelling Dept at East Tennessee State University Besides offering courses and degrees in Storytelling, they sponsor The National Storytelling Youth Olympics; Summer Storytelling Institues; the Summer Storytelling Cruise; and other very valuable programs.

• Laugh*Makers Magazine, PO Box 160, Syracuse, NY 13215
  Telephone: 315-492-4523, Fax 315-469-1392, E-mail: lafmaker@aol.com
  Price: $24.00 per year, 6 issues

• Works in Progress:A biannual publication of StorySwap and MAST - A journal for storytellers featuring stimulating articles; interviews; dialogue; critique and more. Send to StorySwap, P. O. Box 90161, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. $6.00 per year, single issues $3.50.

  There are a number of Storytelling Newletters being published as well.

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  STORYTELLER'S PAGES

  Many of these pages are now gone. . .

• Bob Shimer:Storyteller and Ventriloquist
• Tom and Sandy Farley - Spontaneous Combustion
• Marc Batten - Backporch Storytellers A group of thirty storytellers in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
• Richard and Judy Young Storytellers and Story Consultants
• Kevin Michael Brooks Parent and Teller
• Nancy Schimmel - Storyteller, teacher and author of Just enough to Make a Story: A Sourcebook for Storytelling
• Lee-Ellen Marvin Storyteller and doctoral student in Folklore - her page includes a list of Colleges offering Storytelling courses.
• Miriam Nadel's Storytelling Pages Storyteller and Aero-space engineer in California
• The Jewish Storytelling Coalition A New England group of Storytellers and listeners
• Ruth Stotter's Home Page Ruth publishes a Nice Calendar and several story volumes, but will soon have other story telling information on her page.
• Diane Wolkstein Well known in the storytelling world.
• Voices of Illusion A High School Storytelling Troupe in Hanford, Ca.
• David Heflick author of How to Make Money Performing in Schools

• Richard Martin Tales and Music - Teaches English using storytelling in Darmstadt, Germany.
• Norwegian Storytelling Association Page Lots of story resources.
• The Austrailian Storytelling Guild in Sidney, Austrailia
• Daryl Bellingham: Storytelling in Australia A useful page with stories and practical helps from Down Under.
• Kel Watkins Outback Storyteller in Australia.
• Tim Sheppard An English Teller who publishes miniature books with extensive storytelling links!
• Graham Langley An English teller.

• Richard Marsh, Stories and Tours of legendary sites in Irish lore.

• Sean Buvala Stories for Church and other settings, has a website service for storytellers as well.
• Carl Strang, a naturalist and storyteller in Illinois.
• Nature in Legend and StoryNILAS - An organization with a story E-Zine. They also have a new monitored listserve out of the University of Michigan. To subscribe: Send to LISTSERV@H-NET.MSU.EDU the message SUBSCRIBE H-NILAS [Your name, affiliation]