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AWARDS

Oracle Awards Program
In 1995, the Board of Directors with the support of the membership began to recognize individuals and organizations for their art as storytellers and/or for their work in the storytelling community. Over the years this program has become the ORACLE Awards. The presentation of the awards occurs at the National Storytelling Conference.

Storytelling World Awards
Each year Storytelling World selects a panel of at least 50 highly qualified judges (with a variety of professional, personal, and geographic backgrounds) who spend several months in an intensive evaluation process to select awards for the following seven categories: stories for young listeners, stories for pre-adolescent listeners, stories for adolescent listeners, stories for adult listeners, storytelling anthologies, storytelling recordings, special storytelling resources.

Youth Storytelling Pegasus Awards
Annual awards given for excellence. Promotes youth storytelling, and includes awards for kids, coaches, programs, resources, and more.

Toronto, Canada
Alice Kane Award
The award is offered annually to a person or persons who wish to advance the art of storytelling through research, innovative projects, or through their own personal development as a storyteller.
Anne Smythe Travel Award
The award is designed to support the work of an active storyteller through the provision of funding to support travel expenses related to a storytelling project.

GRANTS

National Storytelling Network Grants Program
Support is available for the development of individual work, for collaborative projects, for community-based storytelling programs or for scholarly research.

Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling
award focuses on the transformational properties of storytelling, and aims to increase understanding of the ways storytelling can promote change in individuals and communities.