OUR ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF STORYTELLERS
AT YALE UNIVERSITY
WE CELEBRATE THE POWER OF STORYTELLING
WE HONOR MANY OF OUR STORYTELLERS ONSTAGE
WE GIVE STORYTELLERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET PEERS AND OUR TEAM IN PERSON
IT'S A MAGICAL EVENT THAT WE LOOK FORWARD TO AS MUCH AS THE STORYTELLERS THEMSELVES!
SOME ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG NOVELISTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
We also get to celebrate our Legendary Storytellers who have been through our program 3, 4, even 5+ times!
THIS YEAR STORYTELLERS WERE SORTED INTO STORYCON TEAMS
TO LEAD US ON A HERO'S JOURNEY THROUGH THEIR STORIES
Dive in and take the journey yourself – guided by some powerful Joseph Campbell quotes.
By clicking through the teams' curated book excerpts below, you'll get to see the highlights our Young Novelists shared out loud at StoryCon:
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1. DESTINY SUMMONS THE HERO
“The ‘call to adventure’ signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred their spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of their society to a zone unknown.”
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2. THE HERO ENTERS THE SPECIAL WORLD
“The pairs of opposites – life and death, good and evil, and all the other polarities that bind the faculties to hope and fear – are the clashing rocks that crush the traveler, but between which the heroes always pass.”
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3. THE HERO ENCOUNTERS TESTS, ALLIES, AND ENEMIES
“If anyone in whatever society undertakes for oneself the perilous journey into the darkness by descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of their own spiritual labyrinth, they soon find themselves in a landscape of symbolical figures.”
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4. THE HERO LOSES EVERY THING TO GAIN EVERYTHING
“The individual, through prolonged psychological disciplines, gives up completely all attachment to their personal limitations, idiosyncrasies, hopes and fears, no longer resists the self-annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great at-one-ment.”
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5. THE HERO BEGINS LIFE ANEW
“How communicate to people who insist on the exclusive evidence of their senses the message of the all-generating void?”
Next storycon Coming December 2024
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