NORTHLANDS STORYTELLING NETWORK

Inspiration is what we do. Celebration is how we do it.

Notice to Members and Friends of Northlands
Northlands Storytelling Network closed its membership organization as of December 31, 2022.
The Closure Gathering was held Thursday evening, December 29, 2022. It was an online sharing of Northlands' history, memories and closue ceremony. If you would like to see the recording, click the link below.
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Northlands Storytelling Network Board of Directors

In 1978, five storytelling friends traveled together to the National Storytelling Festival in the "Southlands" of Jonesborough, Tennessee. Inspired by and celebrating story, these five friends formed an organization up "North." In forty-four years, Northlands has grown a membership, a conference and this website, bringing together a network of storytellers whose feet are planted in the heartlands of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin but whose hearts reach wherever tales are told. We are friends to each other, friends to story and friends to our listeners.
Our mission always remained true to our founders: Northlands inspires story artists to celebrate oral storytelling in all its diversity!
If you are interested in more of Northlands' history, click here.