The 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival has concluded. Stay tuned for updates about the 2025 festival soon.
The 2025 Women’s Storytelling Festival will take place March 21 – 23, 2025, at the Sherwood Community Center in Fairfax, VA.
SAVE THE DATE!
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PLEASE NOTE: The Festival is intended for a mature audience.
The Women’s Storytelling Festival, produced annually in March by Better Said Than Done, is a festival celebrating Women (including TGNC individuals) Spoken Word Performing Artists. The festival debuted in March 2020 in Fairfax City, VA, and, thanks to the pandemic, set a precedent for our Festivals to be available for audiences both in-person and online.
ANNOUNCING THE 2024 WOMEN’S STORYTELLING FESTIVAL STORYTELLERS:
Sheila Arnold, Michele Carlo, Rosemary Cipriano, Fanny Crawford, Carmen Deedy, Jane Dorfman, Bonnie Gardner, Edith Gonzalez, Claire Hennessy, Megan Hicks, Andrea Kamens, Ronna Levy, Roopa Mohan, Stacy Ann Parish, Anne Rutherford, Robin Schulte, Laura Simms, Aimee Snow, Penelope Whitney, Linda Yemoto, and Andrea Young!
Read about the 2024 Festival Storytellers HERE.
Press and More About the Festival
Read this article about the 2024 festival in DC Metro Theater Arts!
Read this article about the 2024 festival in Fairfax Connection Newspaper!
Read this article about the 2024 festival in FFX Now!
Thank you to Our 2024 Sponsors:
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Read an article about the 2023 Women’s Storytelling Festival in
DC Theater Arts Here
Watch an interview with Jessica Robinson about the 2022 festival, on MMCTV’s “Stories in Focus,” hosted by Ellouise Schoettler.
Blog Post and Video Here
Here is a link to the Press Release about the 2021 festival.
Here is a link to the article on the National Storytelling Network, called “Why Women Need a Festival,” by Jessica Robinson.
Read this article about the festival in DC Metro Theater Arts!
About the 2021 Virtual Women’s Story Fest
Thanks so much
for the gift of that festival
for the gift of holding space for women
just everything!
Wow.”
I’m loving seeing tellers who are friends, tellers I don’t know personally but I know and love their work, and tellers new to me!”
If you have any specific questions, write to: festival at bettersaidthandone dot com.
Hosted by Better Said Than Done.
Thank you to Our Festival Committee:
Stacy Crickmer, Bonnie Gardner, Carol Moore, Miriam Nadel, Bart Robinson, Jessica Robinson, Jack Scheer, Andrea Young, and Cyndi Wish.