October 3-5, 2025

Join us in Jonesborough, Tennessee on October 3-5, 2025 for the National Storytelling Festival. Since 1973, the National Storytelling Festival has been the premier storytelling event in the United States, hosting international voices from the storytelling capital of the world. 

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Thank you to our sponsors

Friends of the Festival

Ballad Health

Joy & John Bolt

Break It Down Event Solutions

Gayle Brown

Virginia Buhr

Linda & Joseph Calamari

Dr. Art & Charlotte Ellis 

David Gooch

Lynda Harris

TCS Event Rentals 

Carl & Vicki Russell

Norm Stewart & Kathryn Smith 

In Memory of Cassandra Moore

Jay & Cari Jarman

Margaret Harris

Susan Greene

Phillip Doriot

Lynda Wexler

Pat Paveglio

Carol Dobyns Fair

Thanks to Chuck Fink

Carol & Bobby Frist

Kent & Cathy Taylor

Huntress Family

Shirley Stafford

Corinne Stavish

Dan & Katie Mahoney

Donald & Trish Davis 

Phil & Eileen Stauffer

Ms. Holly McEntee & Dr. Eric Sandgren

Jennifer Armstrong

Rose Marie S. Burris

Matthew & Karen Clark

Friend of Corinne Stavish

Jeff Doyle

Gary & Barbara Duerk

Anne Jellison & Richard Francis Celio

Henry & Flora Joy

Thelma Kidd

Kris Kristensen

Dwight Mitchell Insurance Agency

Phillip & Peggy Lenowitz

George & Georgeanne Oxnam

Anne Reel

Drs. Glynda & David Ramsey

Mary Smrekar

Marilyn Stempeck

Thomas Swan

Wendy G. Talley

C. Carolyn Thiedke, MD

Ed & Maria Ward


Storyteller Circle of Support

Adam Booth

Joseph Bruchac

Len Cabral

Regina Carpenter

Diane Edgecomb

Doug Elliott

Elizabeth Ellis

Diane Ferlatte

Megan Hicks

Barbara McBride-Smith

In memory of Doc & Gin McConnell

Susan O’Halloran

Corinne Stavish

Ed Stivender

Pippa White Lawson

Bill Harley

Donald Davis

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