Story Worlds 2025

Story Worlds is a new festival that invites audiences to experience storytelling as a rich, interconnected practice—through the written words, material cultures, and oral traditions.

Join a brilliant line up of thinkers, storytellers, authors and artists across four days as we explore how stories shape our understanding of the world, especially when viewed through the lenses of language, ecology, and participation. 

Story Worlds is an invitation to see storytelling not only as something we tell or hear, but as something we live, carry, and co-create.

At the heart of Story Worlds are three guiding themes:

Language as Living

 Language is always shifting. It lives in what we say, write, and make.

 ➤ How do stories reflect the rhythm of language as it moves through time, place, and culture?

Participation as Creation

 Storytelling is not a solo act—it emerges between people.

 ➤ How do stories grow when many voices shape them, and what does it mean to make meaning together?

Ecology as Becoming

 We are inseparable from the natural world.

 ➤ How do stories reveal our evolving relationships with the land, water, climate, and more-than-human life?

Story Worlds offers an open invitation: To listen deeply, speak honestly, and imagine boldly—together.

Join us for a festival that celebrates storytelling in all its forms and honours the ways stories help us make sense of ourselves, each other, and the world we share.

Visit the website to explore the full line up of events and speakers: Story Worlds 2025