The region’s favorite storyteller, Paul Strickland, has been invited for the second year in a row to serve as Master of Ceremonies at the prestigious National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
The popular three-day event is the largest and oldest storytelling festival in America and draws thousands of visitors from all over the globe.
This year, in addition, Strickland will teach a storytelling workshop entitled “Funny Is A Skill.”
Covington resident Strickland is the founder of Tell Stories Better, an online teaching resource to help people do just that.
“Funny Is A Skill” is one of Strickland’s most popular offerings, and drew a record number of registrants when he offered it online earlier this year.
As a featured teller at the 2023 National Storytelling Festival, Strickland performed for audiences of up to two thousand people at a time, and drew standing-room only crowds to his tale-telling tents. It is experiences like this that inspired him to found a storytelling festival right here in Cincinnati, and the thriving sixth-year Cincinnati Storytelling Festival will be held this November in the heart of OTR.