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How to be a completely predictable serial fantasist, by Professor Jason Arday

WOULD you like to impress friends, strangers and edit Radio 4’s Today by telling the same lies every other fantasist does? Take my accredited course in how.

As a Storyteller, Tim Curry Had the Gift

He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”

‘A storytelling community built on kindness’: Jessica Robinson on Better Said Than Done

The award-winning founder shares the transformative power of authentic personal narrative. By KENDALL MOSTAFAVI

The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei

Nate Amos writes songs that both embrace and lampoon dusty singer-songwriter tropes.

The bony tale of Billy and his musical hall skeleton

I am a hail-fellow-well-met Victorian gent of some renown,...

'I'll keep finding new ways to tell stories': Meet chronicler stroke illustrator Sun Bai

Depicting subtle, quiet scenes where "nothing dramatic is happening", the illustrator wants to keep her drawings wide open for interpretation. "I don't usually start by trying to...

The Storyteller: Three Red Lights Over Zinfandel Lane

A Simple, One-Word Trick to Turn Everyday Life Into Grand Fantasy

How “lore” turns fact into fiction — and vice versa.

Sigrid Nunez’s stories surprised even her

The author of the novel “The Friend” felt a burst of energy that culminated in a short story collection. Her prose is warm, powerful, precise, and shattering.

Iyadunni Gbadebo: Making Storytelling Great Again

She is a theatre practitioner, tourism strategist and hotel executive, but at the heart of everything Dr. Iyadunni Gbadebo does is a singular mission: to make Lagos a destination w...

That reminds me of a story about me, says dickhead friend

AN irritating friend has once again steered a group's conversation towards an anecdote all about himself.

Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories

Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing.

Jess Kidd: ‘I grew up as part of a large, rowdy London-Irish family in a house with few books but many talented storytel...

My Life in Books

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Cont...

My Childhood with Bernard Casey: After my first comedy set I knew it was the life for me

Chatty, imaginative child Bernard now a stand-up guy

‘What’s a fact about yourself that sounds made up?’ – 17 real life stories people find hard to believe

We’re all prone to exaggerating a story to impress a crowd. But some people’s life stories are so peculiar that no embellishment is required. Don’t believe me? Well, Extreme-Repeat...

рџЋ§Building a Bar Around Storytelling and Craft: Allegory

The Insomniac Tyke

I’m an expert and do it in my sleep,...

“They Deserve A Voice Oscar”: People Are Sharing Audiobooks With Absolutely Incredible Narrators

"I would listen to Bryan Cranston read the phone book."View Entire Post ›

Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango 

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice...

Share Your Story

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of hearing people’s stories. When The post Share Your Story appeared first on Harvest.

Saife Hassan on why negative characters intrigue him more than heroes

Reflects on his childhood love of storytelling, urges aspiring creators to focus on theatre and craft over fame

The Many Masks of Dan Hoyle

The actor performs real people’s stories onstage—from loyal Trump voters to superfans of the band Phish. Now he’s bringing his “journalistic theatre” back to Joe’s Pub.

Community Scripts Would Regularly Tell One Actor To Improvise Their Lines

Community creator Dan Harmon said this actor was a superstar who could come up with his own funny lines when the writers didn't have time.