Storytelling

Bruce A. Smith has been a professional storyteller since 1991 – on and off, depending on his income - and is the 1997 National Storyteller of the Year, 2nd Runner-Up, and the 1998 National Storytelling Champion, Runner-Up. In the early 1990s, Bruce hosted a weekly storytelling show on KAOS-FM in Olympia, WA. In addition, he filmed six, two-hour episodes of “Stories from the Journey” for Olympia Public Access television, TCTV, in 1996. He also produced a storytelling cassette tape in 1991, titled: “Campfire Tales – True Stories Your May Not Believe.”

Recently, Bruce is a regular teller at Fresh Ground Stories in Seattle, and has performed on several Moth Storytelling stages in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Many of his stories can be read online at his The Mountain News-WA site.