These links to interdisciplinary storytelling resources represent a broad spectrum of storytelling sites that either span more than one discipline or represent a discipline not covered by other pages of links on A Storied Career. Here you’ll find links as categorized below; some are cross-listed under more than one category. Please feel free to suggest links for this page by e-mailing me.

• Children’s/Family Stories and Storytelling
• Education-Related Story Resources
• Folklore and Mythology
• Literary, Fiction Sites
• Multimedia Storytelling Resources
• Narrative Psychology
• Online Magazines
• Oral Performance and Presentation Storytelling
• Portals Covering Broad Mix of Story Resources
• Social-Change Story Initiatives and Resources
• Spiritual and Religious Story Resources
• Story Collections
• Story Practitioners/Consultancies: Individual Coaching
• Story Practitioners/Consultancies: Marketing, Branding
• Story Practitioners/Consultancies/Authors: Other
• Storytelling/Narrative Theory and Research
• Visual Storytelling

• Families Eating and Storytelling Together (FEAST): Initiative that celebrates and supports the importance of sitting down together at a meal and the role that storytelling can play in strengthening communication and relationships among family and friends.
• iTales: Fee-based downloadable audio stories for children.
• Storytime for Me: Free children’s stories online.

Education-Related Story Resources

• Awesome Stories: Gathering place of primary-source information that helps educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
• Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive (Georgetown): Archive on digital storytelling shares the results of a multi-campus study of student learning and digital storytelling in humanities classrooms.
• The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Unversity of Houston site with digital-storytelling resources.
• Facing History and Ourselves: Works with educators throughout their careers to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, as well as their students’ academic performance and civic learning.
• George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling: Dedicated to promoting, teaching, developing, and researching storytelling in all its forms.
• International School of Storytelling, Emerson College, UK: Longest running center of its kind where the craft of the storyteller is practiced and honored. Here stories come alive and serve performers, healers, teachers, the business world, the environment and the wider community.
• MultiStoryMedia:Laura Kratochvil’s site about making online learning a more creative, unique, and entertaining media rich experiences-where the “Story” is at the center of it all.
• Narrative and Learning Environments: Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence that focuses on questions regarding the application of narrative in learning environments.
• Once Upon a School: Online initiative developed in response to author and philanthropist Dave Eggers’ 2008 TED Prize wish to inspire and collect the stories of private citizens engaged in their local public schools.
• Streetside Stories: San Francisco-based literacy arts nonprofit that has helped 14,000+ students to share their life stories, connect with the arts, and improve their literacy skills.

Folklore and Mythology

• The Bard’s Grove: Radio show/podcast by R. W. Spisak about “ancient myths, legends, fairy tales and fables … and the archetypes of life.”
• Myth and Ritual in American Life: Emory University’s Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) focuses its research on the functions and significance of ritual and myth in dual wage-earner middle-class families in the American South.
• School of Myth: “Provides participants with an unrivalled immersion into Myth, Story, and its relationship to the wild. “

Literary, Fiction Sites

• Brevity: Concise Literary Nonfiction: Publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form.
• Story Bleed Magazine: Literary magazine published online weekly.
• The Story of Everything: An extended parable that tells of a journey that a man makes and one that a story does.

Multimedia Storytelling Resources

• 3D Storytelling: A conference on “moving stories into the 3rd dimension.”
• The Call of Story: TV special that transposes an ancient tradition into a modern medium.
• David Kennedy: Site of David Kennedy, web producer, journalist and writer with a master’s degree in interactive media, who has participated in a Q&A on A Storied Career.
• Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive (Georgetown): Archive on digital storytelling shares the results of a multi-campus study of student learning and digital storytelling in humanities classrooms.
• Digital Storyteller: Danish-language site.
• Digital Storytelling Wiki: Exactly what it sounds like.
• Flyp: A dynamic online, multimedia magazine that combines text, video, audio, animation and interactivity into a new kind of storytelling.
• Massive.tv: Venue for Northwestern University’s creative forces by vividly and digestibly profiling exceptionally talented students, documenting their work and revealing their lifestyles. This dynamic digital storytelling bolsters collaborations by creating outlets for students to pool resources and build on each other’s strengths.
• MediaStorm: Award-winning multimedia production studio, working with top visual storytellers, interactive designers and global organizations to create cinematic narratives that speak to the heart of the human condition.
• Mythtaken: Site of (my cousin) Alexander Lucas, an award-winning editor, producer, and motion graphics designer.
• Startled Cat: This studio for immersive storytelling explores how the age-old tradition of story, when combined with immersive media, can be a powerful tool for reaching out to individuals and communities.
• Stories Matter: Provides written and audio/visual digital documentation and scanning for individuals, families, businesses, and organizations — recording in person or by phone. Specializing in oral histories, offers a choice of simple transcriptions of the audio recording or narratives suitable for publication.

Narrative Psychology

• Narrative Psychology: Links about the discipline of narrative psychology.
• Power of Stories Section of Psychology Today: Based on the premise that telling stories is the best way to teach, persuade, and even understand ourselves.

Online Magazines

• The Art of Storytelling: Publication about the creative process behind street culture and the celebration of that collective relationship.
• Conducive Magazine: Magazine devoted to critical thinking about ways to deal with social problems and looking for viable solutions to dilemmas we face on both a local and worldwide scope. Also features articles covering innovative ideas and research accessible to a diverse audience of progressives interested in social change.
• Contagious Magazine: Focuses on future-facing marketing ideas and emerging technologies across a diverse range of media channels and product categories.
• Flyp: A dynamic online, multimedia magazine that combines text, video, audio, animation and interactivity into a new kind of storytelling.
• Narrative Magazine: Nonprofit dedicated to storytelling in the digital age.
• Story Bleed Magazine: Literary magazine published online weekly.

Oral Performance and Presentation Storytelling

• 5 Truths and a Lie: Six interesting people are given a theme and asked to tell an 8-10-minute story from their lives, without notes, in front of a live audience. The twist is, one of the storytellers (known only to the host and themselves) is lying. At the end of the evening the audience takes a vote and we find out which person was fibbing. See also 5 Truths and a Lie Facebook page.
• Community Performance International: Works with communities and organizations around the world to strengthen bonds, dispel fears, ask questions, dig deeper, climb higher and live better by providing a method to hear, tell and present the community’s shared stories, in a professional quality theatrical production.
• Eth-Noh-Tec Kinetic Story Theater: San Francisco-based kinetic story theater that is at once precision choreography, lyrical word-weaving, graceful, playful and poetic.
• How to Tell a Great Story: Storytelling resource Web site.
• International School of Storytelling, Emerson College, UK: Longest running center of its kind where the craft of the storyteller is practiced and honored. Here stories come alive and serve performers, healers, teachers, the business world, the environment and the wider community.
• International Storytelling Center: Organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering people across the world to accomplish goals and make a difference by discovering, capturing, and sharing their stories.
• Katalyst Tales: Site of storyteller Katrice Horsely
• Kevin Brooks: Storyteller: The site of storyteller Kevin Brooks,
• Kevin D. Cordi, Storyteller: Site of storyteller Kevin Kordi, orginator of The Storybox Project.
• Laura Packer: Site of storyteller Laura Packer.
• Lynne Duddy: Site of storyteller Lynne Duddy.
• Society for Storytelling: Open organization that welcomes anyone with an interest in oral storytelling, whether teller, listener, beginner or professional.
• SpeakeasyDC: Non-profit arts organization based in Washington, DC, whose programs include live storytelling events.
• Spellbinders: Dedicated to restoring the art of oral storytelling to connect elders to youth, weaving together the wisdom of diverse cultures throughout time.
• Spoken Stories: Oral tales and folklore, stories with origins in the oral tradition reworked in original ways, original creations by contributors, stories of real-life events and situations.
• Stories of the Journey Home” Performances stories by “Leo” and “Michael” that can be downloaded for a fee.
• Stories (Un)Folding: Web site of storyteller Megan Hicks, who has done a Q&A on A Storied Career.
• Story Dynamics: Doug Lipman’s storytelling training site.
• Storychasers: Educational non-profit organization based in Oklahoma and lead partner in the “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” oral history and digital storytelling project.
• The Storytellers Olympiad: As part of the cultural programme during the 2012 Olympics, The Company of Common Sense proposes to hold a Storytellers’ Challenge in the Olympic Park that brings storytellers from across the world in partnership with representatives of the many communities in London to engage with the spectators at the Games and to compete for the title of Storytelling Champion of the World.
• Take Back the Mic: Movement whose purpose is to equip communities to tell their own stories.
• Vancouver Society of Storytelling: Group whose mandate is to connect storytelling with the voices and listening ears of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Portals Covering Broad Mix of Story Resources

• Native Village Books, Literature, Storytelling Library: Extensive resources from Native Village, a current events and national resource for Native youth, teens, families, educators, and friends.
• Nieman Storyboard: Looks at how storytelling works in every medium.
• Story Lovers World: Celebrates the world’s best-loved stories, fairy tales, folklore, fables, nursery rhymes, myths, legends, Bible stories, and classics.
• Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers: Probably the most comprehensive collections, for storytellers, of articles, links, and information on the oral tradition and the art of storytelling compiled by Tim Sheppard.

Social-Change Story Initiatives and Resources

• 6 Billion Others: 5,000 interviews filmed in 75 countries by 6 directors. All subjects answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals, hopes: What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you?
• Storytelling category of Ashoka: Storytelling articles from organization that “strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.”
• Changents: Platform in which change agents can then use a rich suite of storytelling and team-building tools to broadcast their stories across the Internet and bring together a passionate group of backers.
• The Co-Intelligence Institute: Promotes awareness of co-intelligence and of the many existing tools and ideas that can be used to increase it. The CII embraces all such ideas and methods, and explores and catalyzes their integrated application to democratic renewal, community problems, organizational transformation, national and global crises and the creation of just, vibrant, sustainable cultures.
• Conducive Magazine: Magazine devoted to critical thinking about ways to deal with social problems and looking for viable solutions to dilemmas we face on both a local and worldwide scope. Also features articles covering innovative ideas and research accessible to a diverse audience of progressives interested in social change.
• Discover the Journey: Team of journalists and storytellers who expose injustices facing children in-crisis and advocate for intervention partners until change is realized.
• A Girl Story: Story of Tarla, which “will progress only by audience donations unlocking new chapters. Just like Tarla, each girl at Project Nanhi Kali depends on donors to progress, stay in school, and complete her education.”
• Global Oneness Project: Travels the globe gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.
• Green Drinks International: Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks.
• Heart and Soul Storytelling Workshop: Wiki for workshop on storytelling and land-use planning/storytelling in community action.
• Immigrant Archive Project: Independent national initiative dedicated to preserving the life stories of America’s immigrant population.
• MiWorld: Global humanitarian internet portal to feature engaging stories about the lives of real people in even the most remote parts of the developing world.
• Nabuur.com: Online volunteering platform that links Neighbours (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Connected through Nabuur.com, Neighbours and local communities learn about each other, share ideas and find solutions to local issues.
• Wonderfully Made: HerStory: Film series of Wonderfully Made that features testimonies from real girls who’ve gone through real struggles. This collection of stories is designed to share a message of hope, freedom and worth with girls everywhere.
• Pictographers: Agency that seeks to connect the world’s most vulnerable populations to those who can help them, using the combined power of words and photographs.
• Planeta Storytelling Wiki: Wiki devoted to improving environmental and social sustainability by sharing good stories.
• The Ruby Books: Deploying great girl voices combined with the power of well-told stories to balance and heal the world.
• See Your Impact: After people make donations, the site emails a picture of the real person whose life the donor changed, along with a story, detailing exactly the difference the gift made.
• Silence Speaks: International digital storytelling initiative supporting the telling and witnessing of stories that often remain unspoken — of surviving and thriving in the wake of violence and abuse, armed conflict, or displacement.
• SmartMeme: “Part of a grassroots cultural uprising of people power demanding change and offering visions to move us towards a solidarity economy, a healthy planet, a just world free from racism and oppressions for this and future generations.”
• Spot.Us: A nonprofit project of the “Center for Media Change;” open source project to pioneer “community powered reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics.
• Stories for Change: Online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates.
• Take Back the Mic: Movement whose purpose is to equip communities to tell their own stories.
• Transformative Language Arts Network: Network for an emerging field, profession, and calling focused on changing the world through words. Transformative Language Artists draw on creative writing, storytelling, singing, performance and more for community building, social change, ecological and spiritual activism, as well as personal and collective healing.
• Wonderfully Made: HerStory: Film series of Wonderfully Made that features testimonies from real girls who’ve gone through real struggles. This collection of stories is designed to share a message of hope, freedom and worth with girls everywhere.

Spiritual and Religious Story Resources

• The Brick Testament: Said to be the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with 3,600+ illustrations that retell more than 400 stories from The Bible (using Lego-like bricks).
• Christian Storytelling: Strives to equip Christian workers with the powerful tool of storytelling and offers seminars, trainings, and products designed to improve communication skills and bring storytelling to a higher level of professionalism.
• Deidox: True stories of how everyday people are being used by God in the world today.
• Story4All: Ireland-based site that is part of a growing network of believers throughout the world who are committed to bringing the Story of God to all peoples … orally.
• Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors: Collection of stories from the Orient, mostly Zen and Taoist tales.

Story Collections

• 1000 Lives in 100 Words: Working on getting 1,000 people to write about their lives in 100 words.
• 6 Billion Others: 5,000 interviews filmed in 75 countries by 6 directors. All subjects answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals, hopes: What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you?
• The Commons: A site for capturing and sharing stories as well as storymapping.
• The Daily Tell: A chronicle of the better side of human nature.
• Divine Caroline: A place to read, write, share, connect, inspire and browse stories, reviews, forums, chit chat, columns, and more.
• East of the Web: Short Stories: Features stories in nine genres.
• Edmonton Stories: Phased campaign designed to help attract people — new employees and their families, students and tourists — to Edmonton. The campaign is intended to help raise general awareness about Edmonton in the rest of Canada and the world, and correct misperceptions about the type of lifestyle and opportunity our city offers.
• Global Oneness Project: Travels the globe gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.
• Daily Grommet: Every day at noon launches one inventive consumer product or service and broadcast its story across the web.
• The History Makers: Stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, events, movements and periods of time that are significant to the African-American community.
• MiWorld: Global humanitarian internet portal to feature engaging stories about the lives of real people in even the most remote parts of the developing world.
• More than Myth: Community-created collection of the most uninhibited, outrageous (but true) stories ever told.
• My Best Pet Friend Forever: Community of pet lovers sharing best-pet-friend stories, relationships, and resources.
• Once Upon a Venture: Podcast stories of entrepreneurs.
• One Sentence: True stories told in one sentence.
• PenTales: Global storytelling collective.
• Spoken Stories: Oral tales and folklore, stories with origins in the oral tradition reworked in original ways, original creations by contributors, stories of real-life events and situations.
• Sports Feel Good Stories: Showcases inspirational sports stories that focus on good deeds, overcoming obstacles, achievement, and sportsmanship.
• Story Lovers World: Celebrates the world’s best-loved stories, fairy tales, folklore, fables, nursery rhymes, myths, legends, Bible stories, and classics.
• Stroke Stories: Shares the results of a story project that describes the process used to capture rich patient narratives, the development of short yet powerful digital stories, and experiences of using the stories in practice.
• Winamop Stories Section: Collection of stories.
• Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors: Collection of stories from the Orient, mostly Zen and Taoist tales.

Story Practitioners/Consultancies: Individual Coaching

• C-Change: Helps people who are caught in the turmoil of change to create a new life story.
• The Circle Project: Helps individuals, organizations, and communities create new patterns, new stories, new cultures.
• Get There from Here: Coaching company dedicated to using the power of story to help you get to the stuff that matters.
• Gilliam Consulting: Site of Karen Gilliam, participant in the A Storied Career Q&A series.
• Transformative Narrative Portrait: Yvette Hyater-Adams’ tool to help guide users through a journey where they will identify themes and patterns in their lives and begin to create life-changing narratives.

Story Practitioners/Consultancies: Marketing, Branding, Organizational Design (see also Links about Organizational Storytelling)

• 93 Studios: Storytellers who use the web to tell stories.
• Anecdote: Australian consulting firm that helps leaders create and communicate strategic clarity by turning their business strategy into a story that can be told and understood by everyone in the company.
• Applied Storytelling: Organization that provides interpretive and analytic talent to express clients’ stories in the most powerful way and then helps companies tell their stories for market advantage.
• Axiom News: Story-focused Canadian organization that publishes news, on behalf of organizations, that catalyzes meaningful contribution.
• Brandstoria: Helps clients connect with customers and make clients’ story their customers’ story.
• Cathy Brooks: Cathy works with companies and individuals helping them navigate the crowded waterways of new technologies with the express purpose of leveraging these rapidly evolving platforms to tell their stories.
• Fourth Story Media: Company that develops compelling intellectual property and distribute it across traditional and nontraditional channels including books, collaborative web fiction, and social media.
• Get Storied: Works at the frontiers of brand positioning, change marketing, tribal engagement, and social media storytelling.
• Greenough Communications: Helps companies develop thought-leadership programs through a disciplined, yet creative approach to storytelling that generates brand conversations with customers, prospects, and investors.
• Ideas on Purpose: Strategic brand communications company that believes in telling authentic stories in words and images that reveal who you are.
• Media Rising: Mandy Leith’s Adventures in the Story Trade.
• Only Human: Uses creative approaches to help organisations and groups improve how they are seen, understood and valued: both inside and out.
• Park Howell: Aims to tell more compelling stories about green marketing to make clients and their marketing more sustainable.
• Quimica Visual: Emotional storytelling for business.
• Ripple100: Agency that tells stories, mixing tech and sociology.
• Startled Cat: This studio for immersive storytelling explores how the age-old tradition of story, when combined with immersive media, can be a powerful tool for reaching out to individuals and communities.
• Stories That Work: Gerry Lantz’s series of narrative-based tools, that help executives and corporations communicate more memorably and persuasively.
• The Storybranding Group: Consulting practice of Cindy Atlee, and home to her collaborations with a variety of like-minded partners.
• StoryQuest: Helps clients with Company Stories, Conference Enablement, and Customer Stories.
• StorySelling: Bruce Hale’s site on how to tell a great story, win trust, and boost sales.
• The Storytelling Company: Creates the story of businesses and organizations.
• Storytelling for Change and Creativity: Strives to help people and organizations craft, record, and celebrate stories in ways that transform all of our lives and is about using the power of storytelling to enhance life, family, work and communities.
• Story Worldwide: Agency that helps big brands tell winning stories.
• Storyz: Allows brands to engage with consumers across all platforms, web and mobile.
• Totem Brand Stories: Marketing journalists craft business objectives into engaging narratives.

Story Practitioners/Consultancies/Authors: Other

• 93 Studios: Storytellers who use the web to tell these stories.
• Katalyst Tales: Site of storyteller Katrice Horsely
• Kevin Brooks: Storyteller: The site of storyteller Kevin Brooks,
• Kevin D. Cordi, Storyteller: Site of storyteller Kevin Kordi, orginator of The Storybox Project.
• Laura Packer: Site of storyteller Laura Packer.
• Lynne Duddy: Site of storyteller Lynne Duddy.
• Media Rising: Mandy Leith’s Adventures in the Story Trade.
• Stories Matter: Provides written and audio/visual digital documentation and scanning for individuals, families, businesses, and organizations — recording in person or by phone. Specializing in oral histories, offers a choice of simple transcriptions of the audio recording or narratives suitable for publication.
• Story Dynamics: Doug Lipman’s storytelling training site.
• Storycatcher: Site of author/speaker Christina Baldwin.

Storytelling/Narrative Theory and Research

• Distributed Narrative: Overview of Jill Walker’s research on distributed narratives.
• International School of Storytelling, Emerson College, UK: Longest running center of its kind where the craft of the storyteller is practiced and honored. Here stories come alive and serve performers, healers, teachers, the business world, the environment and the wider community.
• Journal of Folklore Research: Provides an international forum for current theory and research among scholars of traditional culture.
• Narrative Inquiry Journal: Devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative.
• sc’moi:: The Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry.
• Storytelling, Self, Society Journal: Interdisciplinary journal that invites scholarship addressing any topic related to Storytelling—from its role as performing art to contemporary applications in a variety of professional fields.

Visual Storytelling

• The Art of Storytelling: Created by The Delaware Art Museum, the site allows online visitors to engage with the museum’s collections in a unique and creative way, as well as to create their own pictures and stories inspired by works in the museum. These visitor creations can then be shared, both as an email to a friend and published to this site as an entry for all to experience.
• Background Stories: A concept of visual communication on the back stories of products developed by Arlene Birt. A background story is a visual, info-graphic system that engages consumers — sharing in a visceral way the back stories about the food we eat or the products and services we use
• The Brick Testament: Said to be the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with 3,600+ illustrations that retell more than 400 stories from The Bible (using Lego-like bricks).
• Mythopoesis: Offers a reading of contemporary art and activist practices as performative forms of storytelling.
• Penumbra Design: Design form that unlocks “the beauty of your home or making the most of a building site lies in discovering your personal story so that your home represents you and your values.”
• Rice Boy: Comics by Evan Dahm.

Uncategorized

• Narrative Science: Transforms data into high-quality editorial content through a technology application that generates news stories, industry reports, headlines, and more — at scale and without human authoring or editing.
• Storytelling Quotes: Inspired quotes about storytelling, curated by Get Storied.