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ETSU Storytelling Program

Membership

As a member of NSN, you are connected with storytelling on the national scene, networked with storytellers who share your interests across the country, and supported in many ways on your storytelling journey.  Your membership strengthens the national movement of advocacy for wider recognition of storytelling as a diverse and independent performing art.

 

Apply for membership by calling 1-800-525-4514 or download the Membership Form or Apply Online.

 

If you are a member of a storytelling organization that is an Associate or Affiliate member of NSN, you are entitled to a 10% discount on your individual membership. You must use download the Membership Form or call the office to take advantage of this discount, you cannot apply online and get this discount.

 

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Benefits of NSN Membership

• Learn what storytellers are doing on the national scene through your membership subscription to Storytelling Magazine. Every issue features a guest-edited section on a specialized topic in the field.

 

• Fund your storytelling projects. Thanks to your membership you can apply for NSN grants ranging from $500 to $5,000.

 

• List your skills for potential employers and producers through NSN’s on-line Teller Directory.

 

• Enjoy training, education and networking with other professional storytellers and enthusiasts through your membership discount to the National Storytelling Conference.

 

• Test drive your newest work through NSN’s lottery opportunity to present at the ONLY National Fringe Festival of its kind, held during the National Conference.

 

• Focus your storytelling skills and advance your interests through one of NSN’s Special Interest Groups, including Healing Story Alliance, Producers and Organizers, Storytelling in Higher Education, Storytelling in Organizations, and Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance!

 

• Make a difference by joining one of NSN’s Discussion Groups (Environmental, Interfaith, Intergenerational, New Voices, OUT LOUD! Celebrating Diversity and Challenging Homophobia).

 

• Gain valuable subscriber access to Greenwood’s World Folklore and Folklife database, with full texts of thousands of international folktales, myths, and legends, edited and annotated by knowledgeable folklorists and searchable by country, region, tale type, and myriad keywords. 

 

• Enroll in the Storytelling Program at East Tennessee State University at in-state tuition rates, no matter where you live.

 

• Bring storytelling to your local community through your NSN membership by sponsoring a night of Tellabration!