A word from Aimee Garcia, our WORDTheatre Campus 2024 Ambassador: It is a true honor to help WORDTheatre promote storytelling and language arts education in schools, and on their website. Stories are so essential – they connect us, they make us feel less alone. Recently, I was in the hospital for 21 days taking care…
WORDTheatre’s 2023 Storyteller Award Winner Joyce Carol Oates will have her latest novel, Butcher, published in May 2024. Penguin Random House describes the book as “an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.” In this engaging article from Financial Times,…
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you.” This quote from acclaimed author George Saunders – whose novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize – encapsulates the unique satisfaction that comes from a well-executed short story.…