Call for Stories – 1st International Digital Storytelling Festival 27 – 29 September 2024, Zakynthos, Greece

The 1st International Digital Storytelling Festival will be held in Zakynthos, Greece September 27-29.   Information on the festival is here: https://dstfestival.org/ We hope to see the wide range of story work happening at UMBC represented at the festival.  The UMBC Digital Stories Working Group will sponsor a block of submissions (25-30 stories) and cover the … Read more

11th International Digital Storytelling Conference – June 19 – 21, 2023

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In 2023, the 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference will be held in the Washington, D.C. region of the United States. Local hosts include the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); Montgomery College (MC); and the Smithsonian Institution (SI).  The three day-long conference features three uniquely different experiences. Every day is special; you won’t want to miss a … Read more

DST Conference 2021: “Storytelling for a Just Future”

On June 21-22, an online 26-hour Digital Storytelling ‘marathon’ was held, following the sun across different time zones. All the presenters of the postponed DST2020 event were invited to take part in the online conference and present the paper that they were due to present back in March 2020. Recorded conference sessions and additional materials from … Read more

The Leadership Summit on Applied Storytelling

The Leadership Summit on Applied Storytelling is part of a two-year plan of activities in UK and the US organised by the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Montgomery College, the Story Center, Patient Voices, among other institutions. This first online event … Read more