Tampa/Hillsborough County Storytelling Festival

2020 Featured Teller: Orisirisi African Folklore
2019 Featured Teller: Pat Nease

2019 Featured Teller: Pat Nease

Past president of the Florida Storytelling Association, Pat is a four-time winner of Florida’s Liars Contests. Despite her enlarged funny bone, she manages to travel around the country entertaining listeners with her unique style, ready wit, original and personal stories and adaptations of old favorites. A retired educator, she believes storytelling is the most powerful tool in a teacher’s toolbox.

She is the recipient of the Florida Storytelling Association’s 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 National
Storytelling Networks’ Oracle Award, and FSA’s 2017 Ambassador of Storytelling Award. She is active with national,
state, and local storytelling organizations, spending her time presenting workshops, telling stories, and nurturing the joy of storytelling.

Contact Us

Jason Rogers
c/o Tampa-Hillsborough County Library
102 E. 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602
info@tampastory.org
813-204-2659

What the Festival contributes:

Involving the community …

The Storytelling Festival Committee takes pride in the number and variety of people from throughout the Tampa area that are involved in the Festival.The Festival Committee handles planning, marketing, fund raising, and administrative details. Members include librarians, recreation department employees (city and county), professional storytellers, teachers, school administrative personnel, business people, computer people, community leaders, and parents of student tellers.

See a Map

Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, Home of the 40th Annual Hillsborough County-Tampa Storytelling Festival: 1505 Nebraska Ave., Tampa, FL 33602

Countdown!

hourglass159 days and counting until the 40th Annual Storytelling Festival is here!

What they’re saying:

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“This [Festival] is a wonderful opportunity to see and hear storytelling at its best by some terrific young talent. Great job Storytellers!”

— Deanna Long, Festival Attendee

In Memory

Virginia RiversThe Annual Tampa-Hillsborough County Storytelling Festival is dedicated to the memory of Virginia Rivers