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Tag: Storytelling

May 18, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Think Like a Kid (AKA…Make it a Little Ridiculous), a guest post by Benjamin Roesch

Tell your children stories. And remember to make them a little ridiculous. Kids like that.

March 6, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor

Children of the Black Glass: A Bedtime Story, a guest post by Tony Peckham

Children of the Black Glass began some years ago on a family road trip, when we found an obsidian deposit near a dirt road on the wild side of a jagged mountain range.

February 7, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Crick, Crack: Fantasy, Folklore and Black Storytelling Traditions, a guest post by Lisa Stringfellow

. In A Comb of Wishes, storytelling is central to the lives of the characters and part of the culture of the fictional island of St. Rita, much like it still is in the Caribbean and other parts of the world.

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Me and My Abuela: The Stories that Made Me Want to Become a Storyteller, a guest post by Alex Aster

June 11, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

Debut novelist Alex Aster shares how her abuela's stories made her want to become a storyteller, too.

Book Review: Feral Youth edited by Shaun David Hutchinson

August 22, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Ten teens are left alone in the wilderness during a three-day survival test in this multi-authored novel edited by award-winning author Shaun David Hutchinson. At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor-education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard work, cooperation, and compassion, ten teens are left alone in the wild. The teens […]

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