We all have a story… We all need to be heard.

The 2024 Linda Goodman New Voices Are:

Hettie Farley, VA
Naomi Faw, NC
Nicolette Nordin Heavey, MA
Liza Newell, VA
Quameiha Raymond-Ducheine, GA
Catherine Yael Serota, TN
Steve Tate, NC

Linda Goodman New Voices Rules

2024 Stone Soup Storytelling Festival

The Official Storytelling Festival of South Carolina

April 26-27, 2024

Our Linda Goodman New Voices event gives aspiring, practiced, and polished storytellers (professional and amateur) the opportunity to take the stage at the 2024 Stone Soup Storytelling Festival. Tellers should be prepared to perform a polished, festival-quality story suitable for a family audience. Six (6) tellers will be selected. Honorarium and cash prizes will be awarded.

Submission Requirements

  • Complete the online application form and submit it no later than midnight, January 31, 2024.
  • Submit a sample video of no more than five (5) minutes in length. Video links are preferred. If the sample is longer than 5 minutes please give reference to the time it should be cued. The sample does not need to be the story you will tell on stage at Stone Soup Storytelling Festival.

New Voice Selectees Receive:

  • Free admission to all festival performance events
  • Promotions in Festival related brochures and publications, online and hard copy
  • An honorarium of $50 for performance during the New Voices Event at the Festival.
  • A chance to win prize money. Prizes will be Third Place ($50); Second Place ($100); First Place ($200); and People’s Choice Award ($50 bonus.)
  • A chance to become a Featured Teller for the 2025 Festival. While not a guarantee, the festival committee will take into consideration one or more 2025 Featured Tellers from the 2024 New Voices.

Other Contest Rules

  • Eligibility: If you have ever been selected as a Featured Teller at Stone Soup, or if you have been selected as a New Voice in the past two (2) years, you are not eligible to apply.
  • Selected New Voices will travel to the Festival at their own expense, with no monetary compensation except for the honorarium and prize money.
  • Cancellation: In the unlikely event that the 2024 Stone Soup Storytelling Festival is canceled, neither Stone Soup Storytelling Institute, nor any of its agents, successors, or subsidiaries will be obligated for any expenses or inconveniences.
  • Maximum Story Length: Each Linda Goodman New Voices participant will tell one story for a maximum length of twelve (12) minutes. Stories lasting longer than 12 minutes will be disqualified, time is of the essence.
  • Family Friendly Content: Performances for the Linda Goodman New Voices event may be of any genre, but the use of profanity or the introduction of adult topics will disqualify the participant. The final determination of whether content is appropriate for a family friendly audience will be made by contest judges with no recourse or appeal. Please remember children may be in the audience.

Are you ready for the main stage?

Think You Have What it Takes?

Submit an application and show us you’re ready to experience the magic of Stone Soup Linda Goodman New Voices.

THE SUBMISSION PERIOD IS CLOSED

“Happy Tales to You” – Linda Goodman