topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In August 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered in Hanoi to share perspectives on “Foreign Affairs.”  

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In August, 2010 PenTales storytellers gathered to share perspectives on “Once Upon a Time.” Stories included “Once Upon A Time,” by Jacob Evans and a song by Jacob Evans titled “Cigarettes and Whiskey.”

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest Little of the early morning light penetrated the church. At each of the pillars of the nave, candles sat either side of a simple altar. Their light fell upon the monks saying their daily mass, white surplices over their black […]

topic; CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest I thought this morning of the three of us. I put us together again—our faces, our books, our bells—on that African train. I thought of the three of us again, three different people funneled into the cauldron that was Idi […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Listen to the Story! He ghosts along the border, spiriting those who cross over. Seven is his number. He looks so serious and haloed. They say he coyotes in an old pick-up. The wheels are spokes of boots, turning. He’ll […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest When I reach the corner he is there, smiling. As always, he has appeared from nowhere. He waits for me to approach; I cross the street and walk straight into his arms. It is the same corner, the same encounter: […]

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO Check out some photos from the latest fantastic event in Berlin!

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Daniel is ten today, double figures, digital. Today he gets to game properly. Until now he has used the computer games his parents bought him, and used the Wii games with the family but from now on the […]

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Competition While walking through a shopping mall I witnessed a blatant act of human disconnection at its worst. A business man was walking through the mall while feverishly typing some response on his blackberry. He was completely oblivious to others […]