Author: C.M.Mounts
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StoryFest 2026 Recap
StoryFest is a Minnesota storytelling festival, organized by Story Arts of Minnesota. It is an annual state-wide spring festival that features local, regional, and national tellers who teach and perform […]
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41st Annual Texas Storytelling Festival
Do you remember where you were on Friday March 13, 2020? We were at the 35th Annual Texas Storytelling Festival in Denton, TX, my very first though Loren has been […]
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Seeking an Audience
by Christine Mounts ~ September 3, 2023 While wandering the Minnesota State Fair conducting our annual folklore tour, Dr. Buzz’s State Fair Odyssey, we made a stop at the 12:30pm […]
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First Night
Not theater because there is no fourth wall separating us from the audience. Not a poetry open mic at the bar on Wednesday to draw in patrons. Not the storytelling slam model that The Moth Radio Hour is renowned for. Not a writing program, not a marketing buzzword, or a gathering of liars, unless you…
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The Flounder at the Festival
At this year’s festival personal and humorous stories dominated. That transition began in the mid-’80’s when Donald Davis went from telling his versions of Jack tales to telling the stories that have been his bread and butter – his childhood. Soon he was joined by Andy Offut Irwin, Bil Lepp, and in a nod to…
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The Flounder Watches Whales
by Loren Niemi – June 16, 2022 The Flounder/founder (Loren Niemi) of the American School of Storytelling just returned from the Storytellers of Canada National Conference where he taught a […]
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Flounder on the Road
by Loren Niemi – May 12, 2022 We just finished twelve days on the road clocking in 3,567 miles to share four performances including three (High School, New Voices, Liar’s Contest) […]
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Reimagining Traditional Stories
by Loren Niemi – March 27, 2022 What do you remember about your favorite fairy tale? The major characters? Three pigs, a wolf… The basic plot? They build houses, the […]
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How Erotic is that?
by Loren Niemi – September 8, 2021 When we posted the description for “The Erotic in Stories” some wag commented that it was “talking about pee-pee” which probably says a […]
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Forgetting the Middle for a Moment
Both beginnings and ending require careful crafting. It has been said that if you know where you begin and where you end the middle will fill itself in.