Bruce Walker's Page

The Alabama Storytelling Association will meet at the Hampton Inn in Selma, Al. Friday night and Saturday night the Tale Tellin festival will be taking place in Selma, featuring Bill Harley, Tersi Bendiburg and Kathyrn Tucker Windham. Bill Harley and Tersi Bendiburg will conduct workshops on Saturday at our state conference. You are all welcome to participate. SAVE THE DATE!!!

What Storytelling is and is not

First of all storytelling is not stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedy is a quick set-up and punch line with an anticipation of a laugh. Storytelling may have elements of comedy, but its purpose is to develop a plot line and have interaction with characters developed to a conclusion. The comedy is not the reason for the story.

Storytelling is not a narrative, a recitation of some thing memorized. Storytelling is the remembering and telling of a particular thing that… Continue

Our Feb. 7th meeting was a great success. Bylaws were passed, a board elected, and officers installed. We are now on to our task of promoting storytelling in Alabama.

President-Bruce Walker
President Elect-Pamula Spivey
Treasurer-Millie Jackson
Secretary- Ashley Hulsey
Membership Sectretary-Joseph Trimble

Note how many of the officers also belong to Professional Storyteller!!

On Feb. 7th the organizational meeting of the Alabama Storytelling Association will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Clanton, Al., beginning at 10:00 AM. Anyone interested in storytelling in Al is invited to come.

When I decided to do this project, I started out assimilating stories I wanted to use. After a few false starts I realized I needed help to make this CD a success. I had e-mailed and talked with Buck several times about a story I was working on. He did a good job of "coaching" me for a particular event for which I was doing the story. I didn't know that Buck produced storytellig CDs, when I read the back cover of "Three Penny Moma" I realized he had talent as a producer, so I called him and here… Continue