Storytelling as a competition.

Several years ago, I entered and won a national storytelling competition. I had travelled with my mother to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where every October people from all over, flood to a no-stoplight town and gather under enormous tents to hear stories from master tellers.

The tellers aren’t there to sell a product or promote an agenda, but rather to connect the people who squeeze into those tents by the thousands. I watched and listened as the tellers’ stories mesmerized the crowd and had the distinct sense that the impact of storytelling went beyond what meets the eye.

(Kindra Hall - Success Magazine)