Tar Heel Tavern #57: StoryBlogging
I’m happy to welcome the Tar Heel Tavern to StoryBlogging; this site will host the 57th edition of the carnival of North Carolina bloggers. (What’s a carnival of bloggers? It’s a weekly roundup of blog posts from multiple bloggers, a way to promote the writing many bloggers at one shot. It so happens that the carnival of bloggers concept was started right here in North Carolina.)
StoryBlogging is a grassroots initiative to bring together oral history, memoir writing and blogging. So, the theme for the Tavern this week is memoir blogging. Please submit a post, recent or ancient, in which you tell a story about a moment in your life. Or, submit a post in which you share the history of one of your family members. Podcasts will be accepted, too.
Want an example? See A Family Orientation.
You can also help me kickstart an important effort of the StoryBlogging project. We’re looking for examples of multi-generational storyblogging. Please consider visiting a nursing home or retirement community in your neighborhood and chatting with a senior citizen about his or life, and then sharing that person’s story on your blog. (Just be sure to tell the person that you’ll be doing this; this informed consent is important.) I’ll have a special gift to anyone who submits such a post this week.
Please submit your Tavern entries (your name, post title, post permalink) to mistersugar AT gmail DOT com by Saturday, March 25th at 7 p.m.
While you’re at it, mark your calendars for the StoryCorps mobile booth, which begins taking reservations Tuesday, March 28th at 10 a.m.
[There’s also a storyblogging carnival that collects posts with short stories (mostly fiction, I believe).]