STORY POWER: SECRETS TO CREATING, CRAFTING, AND TELLING MEMORABLE STORIES
Kate Farrell
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Reconnect Through Stories
Stories are everywhere. The art of storytelling has been around as long as humans have. And in today’s noisy, techy, automated world, storytelling is not only prevalent—it’s vital. Whether you’re interested in enlivening conversation, building your business brand, sharing family wisdom, or performing on stage, Story Power will show you how to make use of a good story. Mango Publishing 2020.
CRY OF THE NIGHTBIRD: WRITERS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, edited by Michelle Wing, Ann Hutchinson, Kate Farrell
WolfSinger Publications, 2014.
Thirty-eight writers speak out, in more than fifty prose and poetry pieces, of a hidden tragedy: violence in homes, living in fear, and forced silence. Authors from every walk of life and every aspect of this difficult issue raise their voices as one to end this silence, to bring freedom and release for themselves and others. These words will inform and inspire readers: give them eyes to see, a way to express, and motivation to act. On sale: https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Nightbird-Writers-Domestic-Violence/dp/1936099675/
TIMES THEY WERE A-CHANGING: WOMEN REMEMBER THE ’60s & ’70s,
edited by Kate Farrell, Linda Joy Myers, Amber Lea Starfire
She Writes Press, 2013.
Forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the ’60s and ’70s and who felt the pain and joy of new experiences. And finally, here, they tell it like it was. Through this award-winning collection of women’s stories, we celebrate the women of the ’60s and ’70s and the importance of their legacy. On sale as eBook and in print: https://www.amazon.com/Times-They-Were-Changing-Remember/dp/1938314042/
WISDOM HAS A VOICE: EVERY DAUGHTER’S MEMORY OF MOTHER,
edited by Kate Farrell
Unlimited Publishing LLC, 2011
This compelling collection of twenty-five memoirs about mothers written by their daughters reveals a profound legacy between them. The stories run the gamut of mother-daughter relationships, from tenderhearted to difficult, from deep rapport to discord. Yet each story tells an authentic truth, extracts an understanding, finds wisdom. There are common threads of wisdom in this tapestry of international tales. We discover them in the context of extraordinary memoirs written with care and skill, each writer bringing insight into her experiences with mother or a mother figure. On sale as eBook and in print: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Has-Voice-Daughters-Memories-ebook/dp/B0055U8R00/
STORYTELLING: A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS, Catharine Farrell
Scholastic, 1991.
This new edition included new chapters and extended the reach of the Word Weaving Storytelling Project beyond California. With over 10,000 copies sold to educators, the book is still available from third parties on Amazon. This guide is the only publication of many written by Farrell sold on the trade market; all others were curriculum based and sold through the educational market to school districts and libraries as supplementary texts or professional development resources.
Many of the Word Weaving Storytelling publications can be borrowed from the Internet Archives, or from historic or reference collections in public and university libraries.