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How to Tell a Story The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

Meg Bowles

The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on 25 -years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth Over the past 25 years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life - including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winner...

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The book was highlighted across multiple episodes as the Moth's latest best‑selling guide to memorable storytelling, often mentioned by co‑author Kate Tellers and other Moth staff. Episodes celebrated its release, described it as filled with anecdotes, guidelines and inspiration for storytellers, and positioned it as an essential resource for the podcast’s audience. The overall tone was very positive, emphasizing its value and relevance.

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Episode: The Moth Podcast: Leftovers

The Moth Podcast's fourth book, "How to Tell a Story", was co-authored by Kate Tellers. It includes a story by Kate Tellers about bringing cheese to a party.

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The Moth's All These Wonders true stories about facing the unknown and her writing has appeared on McSweeney's and The New Yorker. The rest of the Moth's leadership team includes Sarah Haberman, Christina Norman, Jennifer Hickson, Meg Bowles, Marina Gluchet, Suzanne Rust, Brandon Grant Walker, Leanne Gulley and Aldi Caza. The Moth would like to thank its supporters and listeners.

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Live from London

The podcast was recorded live at the Union Chapel in London to celebrate the release of the book, How to Tell a Story, in the UK. It was said to be filled with wonderful tidbits, anecdotes, and guidelines.

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We're also super excited, we're celebrating our 25th anniversary this year at The Moth. 25 years of one stage, one mic, one storyteller, telling stories to let us all know that we have more in common than we have differences. To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we've released a book, How to Tell a Story. It is filled with wonderful tidbits and guidelines and anecdotes. You might even find a quote from someone you recently met.

This time we have a live performance from the Union Chapel in London. The event celebrated the release of our book, How to Tell a Story, in the UK.

Episode: Halloween: Sofya Tamarkin and Tricia Ho

The book was mentioned in the closing as the best-selling book about storytelling from The Moth.

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Sarah Austin-Ginness is a director, The Moth's executive producer and a co-author of the best-selling How to Tell a Story, the essential guide to memorable storytelling from the Moth, which is available now wherever you get your books.

Episode: The Family Car: Mary Ann Ludwig and Melanie Kostrz...

It is a book about how to tell a story, co-authored by Kate Tellers, who is a storyteller and senior director at The Moth.

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Kate Tellers is a storyteller, host, senior director at The Moth, and co-author of their fourth book, How to Tell a Story.

Episode: They Say It’s Your Birthday: Sheila Cavanaugh and...

The Moth co-author Kate Tellers mentioned this book in her introduction. It is likely a book about storytelling.

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Kate Tellers is a storyteller, host, senior director at The Moth, and co-author of their fourth book How to Tell a Story.

Episode: The Moth Podcast: We're Going To Disney World!

This book was mentioned as the fourth book co-authored by Kate Tellers, the podcast's host.

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Kate Tellers is a storyteller, host, senior director at The Moth, and co-author of their fourth book, How to Tell a Story.

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Bold Moves

Rachel Pomeroy mentioned getting great inspiration from this latest book from The Moth about how to tell a story.

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Rachel is a writer and says that she's getting some great inspiration from the Moth's latest book How to Tell a Story which of course makes us very happy.

Episode: Getting Grown

This book was mentioned as being a best-seller and co-authored by Sarah Austin Jenness, the episode's host.

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Sarah Austin Jeness is a director The moss executive producer and a co-author of the best-selling how to tell a story the essential guide to memorable storytelling from the moth which is available now wherever you get your books

Episode: 25 Years of Stories: Storytelling with Neil Gaiman

This book was mentioned as The Moth's latest release, featuring lessons from various storytellers including Neil Gaiman.

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starting with 50 true stories up to How to Tell a Story, which just released this April and is available wherever books are sold.

our latest book, which just released on April 26th, is called How to Tell a Story.

Episode: 25 Years of Stories: Critical Crash

This book, co-authored by Sarah Austin Jenness, was forthcoming at the time of the podcast recording and was about the essential guide to memorable storytelling from The Moth.

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For 2022 we've been counting down each year of the Moths 25 years of existence and we are honored to feature Tee's story for our 2018 episode. If you have a story you'd like to pitch us we'd love to hear it. Find details about that and the Moths forthcoming book How to Tell a Story at themoth.org.

Sarah Austin Janess is a director, the Moths executive producer, and a co-author of the forthcoming book How to Tell a Story, The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from the Moth.

The Daily Stoic

An excerpt from this book, translated by Philip Freeman, was featured in the podcast. The podcast host discussed Aristotle's views on the importance of plot in storytelling and the elements that make up a tragedy.

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It's a new translation of Aristotle's poetics which is really about not poetry but the art of writing and understanding stories.

— Episode: Aristotle on How to Tell a Story Pt. 2

Episode: Aristotle on How to Tell a Story Pt. 2

An excerpt from this book, translated by Philip Freeman, was featured in the podcast. The podcast host discussed Aristotle's views on the importance of plot in storytelling and the elements that make up a tragedy.

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It's a new translation of Aristotle's poetics which is really about not poetry but the art of writing and understanding stories.

Plot is the most important thing.

The most important element in any tragedy is plot.

The best stories are about what could happen.

A simple definition of the proper length of a story would be that it is long enough to allow a change from good fortune to bad or bad fortune to good in accord with what is probable or necessary.

Episode: Aristotle on How to Tell Story

The podcast featured an excerpt from this book, discussing the art of storytelling, its origins, and different storytelling techniques. It highlighted Aristotle's influence on modern storytelling.

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In today's episode translated by Philip Freeman from this audiobook How to Tell a Story you're going to get some ancient wisdom on how storytelling is an act of imitation using different media and different ways of telling story.

I love the Princeton University Press ancient wisdom from Modern Reader series.

You can listen to a bunch of the additions including how to tell a story anywhere you get your audiobooks and like I was saying we carry the physical ones here at the Painted Porch.

Introduction Storytelling is imitation.

In general it seems that there are two causes for the beginnings of poetry, both of them arising from human nature.

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