The Art of storytelling will help you learn how, and includes hints on techniques, contacts with online story resources, web sites and blogs, and storytellers and associations devoted to the Art of Telling. I have some of my own favorite stories; links to other story sources, and lots more elsewhere on my site as well.
The Storytelling FAQ Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about telling stories and storytelling - an extensive resource of material.
The Storytell List Service
To Subscribe go to The Storytell Listserve Page. 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". You can get the postings in a Digest form.
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 also a Storytelling Coach.
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.
Story Lovers Jackie Baldwin has a tremendous number of stories here.
Doug LipmanThe Storytelling Coach - his site has a number of excellent articles on storytelling, professional telling, and coaching storytellers.
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.
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 five times a year.
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.
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.
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.