2025 Stone Soup Storytelling Festival
Introduction to: The “Stone Soup New Voice”
By Stone Soup Storytelling Institute
rev: 05/26/2022
The Vision: The Stone Soup original vision for New Voices was to bring great, talented,relatively unknown (local/regional/national) storytellers that were working to develop their love for storytelling into a profession to the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival to support and promote talented tellers that were in the “shadows.”
The Image: The “Stone Soup Storytelling New Voice” (the SSNV) has their heart set on becoming a recognized storytelling talent. The SSNV desires to come to the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival to perform on our Main Stage and to promote their talent for the public and our festival and attendees.
The SSNV believes in the power of stories.
The SSNV should have a plan for advancement, to include:
- A plan of action to further public recognition of their art and of their storytelling performances
- Promo materials, bios, samples of their performances, intro, description of their repertoire,
diversity in their performances, a website, social contacts, etc.
The Invitation:
In our SSNV Invitation and Application we ask applicants to consider these questions and requirements.
- Are you ready for the Main Stage? Our New Voices event was created to give rising, professional-level storytellers the opportunity to be on our Main Stage and a chance to be selected as a Featured Teller for the following year’s Stone Soup Storytelling Festival.
- Do you have a collection of stories to perform and a diverse repertoire that will entrance a diverse
audience? - Can you captivate a variety of listeners with stories that may entertain, teach, enthrall, create
empathy, and stimulate creativity and imagination? - Do you connect with your listeners?
The Application:
- Only professional-level storytellers who have never told as a Featured Teller at the Stone Soup
Storytelling Festival may share stories in the New Voices events. - Submit a completed application and sample of stories.
- Submit (or provide access to) a 5 minute (or less) audio and video sample of your storytelling.
- If selected, perform a festival-quality story at ou New Voices event that is no more than 10
minutes long. - Selected New Voices will come to the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival at their own expense, with
no monetary compensation
SSSI New Voices Committee: Linda Goodman, Karyn Page-Davies, Cora Newcomb, Lona Bartlett,
Rodger Ellingwood