2023 Official Folktale Week Guide Book & Companion

Taking a break the week of NOV 20-26th, 2023 but will begin sales again on Monday Nov 27th! Sign up for my mailing list at www.deborahjstein.com to get all the news first!

-2023 Folktale Companion: Guide to Folktales and 2023 Prompt Book $40
-With 2022's prompt guide $65
Sales begin OCT 16th 2023 and guides will be sent as Digital files within 10 minutes-12 hours to the email address provided. (Thanks for your patience!)

For six years. I've made guides in collaboration with the Folktale Week event on instagram, the grandmother and good witch of all instagram challenges. I do it because I grew up loving old stories and making art to tell visual stories is second nature. I do it because I love storytelling, making community with like hearted humans and Folktale Week fits the bill.

This year's Folktale Week Guide once again comes in two inspiring parts: BOOK ONE with new resources and a beautiful primer on the history of folk and fairytales and BOOK TWO, a big inspiring guide of wonderful visual and written storytelling prompts to help you begin thinking of how you might create beautiful tales of your own. This year I'm also offering last year's prompt guide so you can have double the enchantment! (see choices at check-out!)

Both parts of the SCD Folktale Companion Guides are filled to the brim with folk and fairy tale inspirations, resources and ideas about telling and retelling old stories. This year's prompts are NEW and designed for storytellers, artists and illustrators of all kinds to get you excited and prepared for the wonderful instagram challenge that is Folktale Week and beyond.

The SCD FOLKTALE STORY WEEKEND WORKSHOP IS HAPPENING. NOV 3-4-5! The Story Weekend is always a good time with a dedicated Slack group to go though Folktale Week with. And this year we have special guests: award-winning writer-illustrators Sarah Dyer, Zahra Marwan and Margaux Kent to discuss making up stories, visual storytelling and what your own singular realm of what folk and fairytales can be. FTW Hosts Kaly Quarles and Tanja Stefani will also be in attendance! Head over to that link if you'd like to join us!

Thank you for helping in this endeavor and hope you love this year's edition!

A few notes:
•Workbook is digital and PDFs will be sent within 24 hours of your order.
•Please don't share with others.
•Due to the digital nature of this product, refunds cannot be given.
•This year's prompts are new and includes an extra guide filled with background research on folk and fairytales with links galore--it might include a few familiar links from years past that have been built upon with new links to world folktales, resources and books in addition to new encouragement and tons of new inspirations.
•Your email will come from deborah.stein @ me.com --In case you can't find the email please check your spam folder!
•Your credit card charge will be from Bonbon Oiseau (via Square at Big Cartel) which is my LLC in case you are wondering!

After Folktale Week is over, I'll donate 5% of the net profits of all sales to HIAS who have been helping and resettling refugees displaced because of war and political violence around the world. They helped to resettle my mother and her family in 1937.
Please remember that Big Cartel and credit card processors take a big fee so if you'd like to pay via Venmo, more of your funds will go toward my work and to HIAS as well. Message me for details. Thank you!

Art & photos shown here by Deborah Stein, 3rd pic by Kaly Quarles from the SCD Story Workshop Weekend Visual Storytelling Lettering Exercise, 4th inspiration from Edward Gorey, last one experimenting with one of this year's prompts! 🧚‍♂️