The Art of the Story-teller - Marie Shedlock - The full text of this 1915 classic book by Marie Shedlock is online here. The chapters are the Difficulties of the Story; The Essentials of the Story; The Artifices of Story-Telling; Elements to Avoid in Selection of Material; Elements to Seek in the Choice of Material; How to Obtain and Maintain the Effect of the Story; Questions Asked by Teachers. Then the second half of the book contains 18 stories, and a bibliography of further reading, with live weblinks to online story versions.

Eldrbarry's Story Telling Page  - A major resource, by Barry McWilliams. Pages on favorite stories and their background, a Raven resource, profiles of favorite story authors and illustrators, helps on finding, selecting and learning stories; a manual of effective storytelling, links to other sites with help on techniques, online story resources; and tips on Bible stories. Plus over forty tales to read and use.

National Storytelling Festival (USA) -  Early October, Jonesborough, Tennessee, USA.

Tampa Hillsborough Storytelling Festival  - Florida, USA, April. Site has a good coaching manual too.

Tellabration - A Worldwide Storytelling Event - A co-ordinated do-it-yourself festival - separate events in November, organised locally all over the USA and some in other countries. Tellabration provides some support and materials.

Florida Storytelling Association - Includes a directory of nearly thirty performing tellers, details of the Florida Storytelling Camp, an Acrobat PDF file of the latest newsletter (with articles, stories and book reviews useful to tellers further afield), links to resources for Florida stories and others, and an essay on the history of storytelling in libaries.

National Storytelling Network (USA) - The new incarnation of what was the NSMA, NSA, and NAPPS before that.