Good news if you have published a CD

Storytelling World Magazine has an awards program for the best stories published in print or CD form during the previous five years. Edmonton storyteller Gail de Vos has just won such an award with her latest book. If you have published a book or CD in the past five years entry details can be found on line at Storytelling World. The next deadline is 31 July, 2010.

Tell Me A Story - Online

TMAS Online

Due to popular demand TMAS has returned! (Its that fast in the age of social media...)
Coming soon, a link to "TMAS Online" on the front page of our website.
The new TMAS will not contain  permanent information, the monthly calendar, or announcements about strictly VSG events. They are already on the website, the calendar and the blog.
The new TMAS, still under construction but ready to view, will contain such things as the story of the month, announcements of Guild member's activities, other occasional special events and other things that might be useful to the storytelling community.
Take a look at the new TMAS Online  by clicking on  http://vsgtmas.blogspot.com/ or pasting it to your URL.

New Root Cellar additions from Jennifer Ferris

• Tell Me Another, Storytelling and reading aloud at home, at school and in the Community by Bob Barton.
•   Storytelling for Young Adults, Techniques and Treasury by Gail de Vos.
•   Home to a Place Called Peace - Storytelling Movement Theatre "....one mlan's journey from revenge and rage to forgiveness and peace.   Eth-Noh-Tec.
•  T.A.L.E.S. on the wind.  Collection of folktales, personal stories performed by Alberta storytellers.
•  Stories to Tell (folktales) by Bob Barton.
•  Native American Stories told by Joseph Bruchac.
•  Next Teller, a Book of Canadian Storytelling collected by Dan Yashinsky.
•  Best Loved Stories, Told at the National Storytelling Festival.
•  These books, DVD and cd's are available for members to borrow.

 For more information contact Jennifer Ferris rootcellar@victoriastorytellers.org

Storytelling on Facebook

If you are under 34 or want to advertise your storytelling to people under 34, you should be on Facebook.

A new computer program has come out to help you put your original written stories on the status line of Facebook… in snipped episodes, 250 characters at a time.  

Snipisode, a Facebook application developed by Agency Zen, lets you type or paste in a whole story and then with a click of a button snip up the story either by line or by punctuation. Then you choose a frequency for snips of the story to appear as status updates — daily or every two days.

I’m giving it a try. Check out my story on my facebook page starting 10 March at 5 pm.

Albert Fowler