Here at The Story Blender, we’re passionate about well-told, impactful stories. We love to listen to them, watch them, immerse ourselves in them. So, a few years ago we decided to chat with premier storytellers from around the world to hear their stories in their own words and ask them to share some of their story crafting insights.
Since then, over 200 of the world’s top storytellers and writers have joined us for conversations on the secrets to great storytelling. It’s been a fascinating and informative ride. We feel humbled, honored, and thrilled by their appearances on the show and by the responses of listeners worldwide.
Past guests on The Story Blender have written books that have collectively sold over one billion copies and told stories to millions of listeners around the world. If you’ve ever wondered what makes your favorite author or storyteller tick, you’ve found the right place to hear them open up about the process of shaping poignant and memorable stories.
If you love writing, reading, watching, listening to stories, or telling ones of your own to audiences of any size, we invite you to join us as each week as we dive into the art of storytelling.
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your host
Steven James is a national bestselling novelist and critically acclaimed storyteller. With a master’s degree in storytelling, he has taught writing and creative storytelling around the globe and has written three books on the craft of writing: Delve, Pivot, Propel; Story Trumps Structure; and Troubleshooting Your Novel. His Storytelling World Award-winning book, The Art of the Tale, is helping thousands of leaders worldwide tell stories that impact and inspire the next generation. Publishers Weekly calls him “[A] master storyteller at the peak of his game.”
When he’s not writing or speaking, he likes watching science fiction movies, trail running, and eating chicken fajitas—although not all at the same time.
featured guests
Join Steven James with Ewan Morrison this week!
Available june 18
Ewan Morrison has been described as the “most fluent and intelligent Scottish writer of his generation” by Booker Prize judge Stuart Kelly. Morrison is an award winning novelist and screenwriter and an essayist. His writing has been praised by renowned authors Lionel Shriver, Ian Rankin, Fay Weldon, Douglas Coupland, James Frey, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Luke Rhinehart, and Hanif Kureishi among others. Ewan's eighth book, the 'darkly comic thriller, How to Survive Everything was published by Contraband in the UK in 2021, and in the US with Harper Perennial in 2022. Ewan’s novel, NINA X, published by Fleet an imprint of Little Brown, won Scotland's most prestigious literary prize—the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year—in 2019, and his novel, Close Your Eyes was the winner of the Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize in 2013. He is also the winner of the Not the Booker Prize in 2012 for Tales from the Mall (2012) which has been named one of the top 50 Scottish Books of the last 50 years (Scottish Book Trust).