Storytelling Websites

Explore the following websites for help and inspiration in developing your storytelling skills:

Vanora the Storyteller

Vanora Franklin Legaux knows that the art of storytelling is the art of spoken love, oral history, and poetic expression.

Tejas Storytelling Association

A non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of storytelling as an oral tradition, a performing art, and an educational tool.

National Storytelling Network – Resources

A handy list of Storytelling Organizations listed by state

North 40 Storytellers

This group is dedicated to the art, craft and tradition of storytelling in North Texas. Offering a friendly environment in which to listen and to tell stories of all sorts.

Tarrant Area Guild of Storytellers

Monthly meetings where family-oriented storytelling performances by guild members, newcomers, and visitors offer a good sampling of what storytelling is all about.

Dallas Storytelling Guild

Professional and skilled amateur storytellers from the Guild provide programs at diverse venues including schools, churches, civic organizations, community events, corporations, rehabilitation facilities, prisons, and festivals.

Story Center

We create spaces for transforming lives and communities, through the acts of listening to and sharing stories.

International Storytelling Center

Dedicated to inspiring and empowering people across the world to accomplish goals and make a difference by discovering, capturing, and sharing their stories.

The Periodic Table of Storytelling

Beautiful 'periodic table' diagramming the 'elements' of storytelling, a fun and educational reference for writing inspiration.

UNT – Storytelling Websites and Resources

A collection of links to Storytelling Websites and Resources sponsored by the University of North Texas.

TED – Playlists – How to Tell a Story

Why do we love our favorite stories? Do they need a beginning, middle and end, and a character who changes by the conclusion? Masters of storytelling explore new answers to age-old questions of the craft.

The Moth

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.

Oral Fixation

Oral Fixation is a series of hour-long evenings of TRUE, personal stories, each with a new theme performed by a cross-section of seven Dallasites.

TED – Andrew Stanton – The Clues to a Great Story

Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling — starting at the end and working back to the beginning.

TED – Storytelling

In these TED Talks, masters of storytelling share their creative secrets and explore new approaches to their age-old craft.

PBS Frontline – Importance of the Oral Tradition

Before the gospels were composed, Jesus' first followers sustained his memory by sharing stories of his life, death and teachings.

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