Link to Event: https://www.tellpgh.org/
Event Website: https://www.tellpgh.org/
Event Contact Email: tellpittsburgh@gmail.com

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Within the storytelling community, there are Liar’s Contests for tall tales and StorySlams for personal narratives. There are few contests or contest formats dedicated specifically to folk and fairy tales. Our hope is that this contest will serve as a prototype to fill that gap, and give the emergent tellers who specialize in these tales an opportunity to make a name for themselves telling what they tell best.

Six Emergent Tellers (storytellers who have extended experience performing but have not appeared at a festival of national renown such as the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough or the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Utah) will compete in three rounds to be declared the first ever TELL Folktale Fight grand champion! The winner will be chosen by our judges Adam Booth and Sheila Arnold and audience vote, and will win a spot in TELL’s online Winter Olio on December 16, 2021.