2021

Down by The Lakeside Again Florida Storytelling Festival Returns After a year when just about every storytelling session was virtual, the Florida Storytelling Festival returns in January 2022 with live and in-person events at Mt. Dora’s historic Lakeside Inn. Once again storytellers and fans of storytelling will gather under the big tent on the shore […]

  Time for Ghost Stories                 by Walt Belcher   Cold rushes of air. Faces peeking out of darkened windows. Objects falling, unexplained, to the floor.  Strange “orbs” of light, either seen with the naked eye or in photos.  And that mysterious, unexpected feeling that sends chills up the spine.

                                 How I Learned to Love Zoom during COVID                                                               By Walt Belcher   Nothing beats a live audience when you are telling a story. Personal group interaction has been missing during this pandemic. We miss those live, in-person storytelling

  What to do When the Well Runs Dry By Pat Nease I was a writer before I was a storyteller, and cannot remember ever hitting a blank wall, of having no spark, no festering ideas waiting to be developed, no urge to create.  I loved assembling the frame, linking the right words together, deliberating

  The Tale Tellers of St. Augustine  Surviving and Thriving in the Year of COVID  by Debra Weller, President      Can a storytelling guild exist for twenty-eight years? Yes, it can!        The Tale Tellers of St. Augustine is a performing guild of talented storytellers, poets and actors who devote themselves to storytelling

  Community Storytelling Is My Passion By Caren S. Neile, Ph.D.   My father, my stepbrother and I were involved in community theater down in Fort Lauderdale. The lead actress had so many lines that she was always forgetting them. So you would be in the dressing room, which was upstairs and down the hall

  Isolation, Incubation© by Susan O’Hara Isolation? Incubation? Whatever Covid-19 has done to restrict us, we must not, as artists, let it stop us, control us or limit our creative natures. For all of time, human beings have created even- during war, famine, or when imprisoned. Adversity has been a great generator of creativity. Our

                      Storytelling in the Schools: How to Make Study Guides                         ©Katie Adams When I was a child, I loved to act out scenes and stories and I always had big emotional reactions to events