EVENTS (Scroll down for calendar listing)
Watch my platforms for the publication date of my newest novel; “Core – A novel of generational transition on farms”
Reviews for Author – Storyteller Carolyn Stearns adult novel “Christmas Letters” check the events list to see where you can get a signed copy! You can also order here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCCMPC7W
A story of two women living parallel lives 100 years apart in the same house while their husbands serve in wars, WWI and Afghanistan.
“…a page-turner from the beginning. I didn’t want it to end, but couldn’t put it down!…”
“…Prepare yourself for some tears and laughter as you delve into this masterful novel by an emerging voice in the contemporary literary landscape…”
“…Carolyn Stearns once again has moved her ‘oral storytelling expertise’ to magic in the pages of this book. ..”
“…Carolyn writes the most heartwarming story…”
BOO!!
My third book was launched on Oct 30, 2022! Lots of fun local places to read about in Thirteen Spooky Tales from Mysterious Connecticut?
This is available to order now in paperback and ebook. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJHFYGBX
How did storytelling via Zoom relate? Here is a comment from my online Greenwich Library Tellabration:
“Wow! Carolyn, I just attended the Greenwich Library Tellabration. You told two fabulous stories! I was mesmerized!! You were informative, so inspiring, and very soothing. I loved losing myself in your stories and totally forgetting our current nonsensical reality.
Thank You!!” Judy Petersen
Quote about How Far is Safe? from a reader: “I just read your book cover to cover and loved it. A story of friendship, resilience, community, hospitality, and so much more.”
COMING EVENTS
April 25, May 2, 9, 16 Storytelling Residency New Britain Public Schools
June 7, 2025 Creamery Brook Bison Festival on the Farm, Purvis Rd. Brooklyn CT storytelling and book signing
August 30, 2025 The Vineyard at Hillyland Festival, book signing
September 20, 2025 CT Storytelling Festival, New London performance and workshop on family historical stories
September 21, 2025 Guilford Fair – announcing at the Donkey Show
Oct 19, 2025 Strong Family Farm Festival Vernon CT, book signing
November 1, 2025 Mansfield Elementary School Craft show, book signing
Nov, 15-16 tentative Little Dipper Farm
RECENT EVENTS
2025
March 23, 2025 Seymour Historical Society 2 p.m.
2024
October 18, 2024 6:30 Coventry Historical Society at Strong-Porter Museum Spooky Stories by the fire
October 19, 2024 Water’s Farm Festival Sutton MA all day books, storytelling, donkeys
October 25, 2024 Derby Historical Society Lantern Tours 6 pm
Nov-Dec Storytelling Residency at Canterbury Elementary School
November 2, 2024 Mansfield Elementary School Craft Fair 10-2
November 16, 2024 Little Dipper Farm Craft Fair
November 17, 2024 Coventry indoor Farmers Market-Coventry High School
Nov 30, 2024 Baptist Church of Mansfield Vendor Fair
December 6, 2024 Killingly FFA Christmas Shopping Night 5-8
RECENT EVENTS
January 22 & 29 Canterbury School Residency
February 9 Canterbury School
February 14 Valentine’s Day Storytelling for Coventry Seniors
April 10 Rev War History Putnam School grade 5 Performance
April 11 Rev War History Putnam School grade 5 classroom workshops
April 19 & 26 May 3& 10 Vance School New Britain Storytelling residency
June 8 Creamery Brook Bison Festival Brooklyn CT, storytelling and book signing
Selected 2023 EVENTS
October 14 Hempsted House New London, Spooky Stories
October 16 St Mary’s East Hartford 7pm A Story Mix
October 17 Windham Senior Center Stories for Community
Oct 21 Walktober at Mountain Dairy – walk leader 10 a.m.
Oct 21 Coventry Historical Society Hauntingly Good Stories 5pm
Oct 27 Derby Historical Society Lantern Tours 6-9
Oct 29 Bar August New Haven Spooky Stories
November 18 Tellabration Mansfield 10:30
November 18 Camp Ingersoll Portland CT
Nov 19 My books at Franklin Fire Dept Craft Fair
Nov 25 Hickory Ridge Tree Farm Coventry book sales featuring Christmas Letters book
Dec 2 Chaplin Breakfast with Santa book vendor
Dec 3 Christmas in the Village 12-4 Coventry Main St. Book Signing
Dec 4 & 11 Storytelling residency Canterbury Elementary
Dec 8 Killingly FFA Vendor Fair 5-8 book signing
Dec. 9 Book signing at Willimantic Food Co-op Valley St 11-5
Dec 17 Coventry Farmers Market (Coventry High School)
January 8 & 22 2024 Storytelling residency Canterbury Elementary School
ept 17 Guilford Fair Donkey Show announcer
Sept 18-19 Riverside Play in a Day
Sept 24 Bar August New Haven Spooky Stories
-August 25 Brooklyn Fair Equine Demo Announcer – evening
August 27 Author Day Strong Family Farm West Rd. Vernon 10-2
Sept 2 Hillyland Festival at Vineyard at Hillyland Scotland CT
July 8 Ellington Farmer’s Market 9-12 Book Signing
July 19 Tolland Pre-School
July 15 Civil War Storytelling – private party
July 29 “CHRISTMAS LETTERS” BOOK LAUNCH AT THE VINEYARD AT HILLYLAND, 75 Murphy Hill Rd Windham/Scotland, Ct.
Aug 11 Tolland Summer school/camp
Aug 19 Hartford County 4-H Fair Somers Book Sales TBD
July 6 Odyssey School Summer Camp
June 10 Creamery Brook Bison Fest Brooklyn CT 12-4:30 – Storyteller and Book Vendor
June 10 Creamery Brook Bison Fest Brooklyn CT 12-4:30 – Storyteller and Book Vendor
April – May Ct Humanities Book Voyageurs Hartford Public Library Park St Lyric Branch
May 17 Storyteller – Author in Cos Cob School
May 31 Private Party
March 25, 2023 Book Vendor CT Horse Symposium UCONN
CT Humanities Book Voyageurs at West Hartford Noah Webster Library
Mar-Apr Storytelling residence Canterbury Elementary School
Feb-March Storytelling residence in a New Britain School
Nov11 (Nov 12 raindate) Coventry Historical Society Spooky Tales by the Fire see Facebook event – member event, join today
Nov 13 Preston Tellabration 2 pm Preston Historical Society
Nov 15 Wallingford Library Tellabration 7pm, program CT History
Nov 20 Franklin Fire Dept Vendor Holiday Fair – Book Signing
Nov 21 Griswold School Tellabration – private
Nov 25-26 Book Signing at Hickory Ridge Tree Farm
Nov 26 Camp Ingersoll Campfire Storytelling
Dec 3 Cast Youth Theater Vendor Fair Elks Hall Bissell St Manchester
Dec 10 Willimantic Food Co-op Holiday Tables – Book Signing
OCT 30th 10-2 Book Launch Thirteen Spooky Stories on Facebook
Oct 31 9pm Facebook Live spooky story reading
July 20 Tolland Summer K 10 a.m. Birch Grove School
July 27 Chaplin Library 6 p.m. Sea Stories and more
Aug 27-28 Brooklyn Fair Announcing Donkey and Goat Shows
Sept 3 Hillyland’s Homegrown Festival at The Vineyard at Hillyland 12-6 Scotland CT book event
Sept 11 CT Maritime Festival New London
September 18 Guilford Fair – Announcing
September 19-20 Riverside School Play in a Day grade 3
Oct 1 Bog Bodies Narrated Story Walk Whispering Brook Farm 114 Cedar Swamp Rd Tolland CT
Oct 15 raindate 16 Walktober Mountain Dairy with stories of farm, family and land 10-12
Oct 17 Spooky Night 7 p.m. Harkness State Park
July 20 Tolland Summer K 10 a.m. Birch Grove School
July 27 Chaplin Library 6 p.m. Sea Stories and more
June 5 Mansfield Historical Society Grand Opening Stearns 250 years exhibit
June 7,8,9 Riverside School Stamford Play-in-a-Day
June 11 Creamery Brook Bison Festival on the Farm 12-4 Storytelling and books Brooklyn CT
April-May Storytelling Residency New Britain grade 1
May 6 2pm Juniper Hill Housing Complex Storytelling Program
May 15 Nixon Hills author/vendor fair Marlborough
May 21 Norwalk Carousel of Reading
May 24 Avon Schools storytelling residency
March 12 Launch Party for Mystic Girl my new middle grade novel 2-4 Mansfield Public Library
March 19-20 Hebron Maple Fest – Books and Stories at The Eeyore and Donkey Museum
March 26 UCONN Equine Symposium 8:30-2 Vendor fair with books
February 1,8,15,22 Book group Willimantic Public Library w/ CT Humanities
Feb 10, 24 March 10 CT Humanities Book group at Willimantic Public Library
Wed Dec 15 The Breadbox Concert Series 7pm to benefit the Covenant Soup Kitchen. St Paul’s church Valley St Willimantic Folk music and story!
Nov-Dec Canterbury Elementary School residency grade 1
Oct 21 6:30 p.m. adult Spooky Stories at Willimantic Public Library
Oct 16-17 10-4 Waters Farm Festival Sutton MA, announcing, storytelling, books for sale
Oct 23 1:30 Mansfield Public Library Donkey Day Come meet Jewel the donkey
Nov 21 Camp Ingersoll Family Campfire and storytelling Portland
**August 14, 2021 debut novel “How Far is Safe?” Book Launch Celebration AUG 14 1-4 at the Donkey & Eeyore Museum Hebron CT
October 2 Children’s Book Fair with Willimantic Public Library at Memorial Park Main St 10-2
Sept 19 Guilford Fair Donkey Show
July 26 Winthrop School New London
Aug 12 Tolland Family Resource Center Storytelling
Aug 21 Book Signing at G. M. Thompson & Sons Rte 44 Mansfield Depot CT
Aug 26 Camp Hawk Got Talent Tolland
Aug 28 Brooklyn Fair Donkey Demonstration announcer
Aug 29 Brooklyn Fair Goat Show announcer
June 7 Hale School Storytelling
July 7 Tolland Family Resource Center Storytelling
CT Storytelling Festival April 23, 24, 2021 ONLINE
I performed Magdalena’s American Dream and offer my workshop “My Roots are Showing – Collecting and Telling Family Stories”
Here is a comment about the performance:
Jefferson School New Britain
Danbury Library Revolutionary War Stories
Sub – Base Library Books and Stories Program with CT Humanities
Hubbell School students with CT Storytelling Center
Residency Canterbury Elementary School ( performed partial before Covid lockdown) via Zoom
Tellabration with Griswold School February 2021
Selected Past Events
Warehouse Point Library for CT Humanities
Greenwich Library Tellabration via Zoom
June 1Online CT Humanities and CT Storytelling program CCSU online in June
Apr 24-25 CT Storytelling Festival New London performance & workshop on Historical Family stories (Did a 15 minute contribution to virtual event)
May 7 Hartford Public Library Mother’s Day program – was performed online due to Covid19
12/4,11, Jan 15/22 Hubbell School Bristol Residency in Second Grade
11/30/19 4:30 P.M. Camp Ingersoll Bonfire Night Portland CT
11/20/19 Hubbell School Bristol CT Grade 2 residency
10/24/19 CT Humanities Growing Green Program at Hartford Public Library 5:30 p. m. 3rd floor children’s library Books, storytelling and crafts.
11/1/19 NaNoWriMo begins – 30 days to write a 50,000 word novel – Here I go! Met goal Nov 13 finishing book by Nov 30
11/2/19 CT After School Network Conference workshop presenter “The Intersection of Storytelling and Social Emotional Learning”
11/10/19 Tellabration Preston long Society 1 pm Historical story of CS Ship Confederacy and other historical stories 45 Long Society Rd Preston CT
12/20-21/14 Mystic Aquarium 10:45 12:45 2:44 (15 days of performance)
3/13/15 CLIR – CT Learning in Retirement at UConn performing George Henry Story program 1:15 Depot campus
03/30/15 “Word Power, Your Power, My Power, Our Power” Women’s History Month program at WCSU womenscenter@wcogd.org 6-8 p.m.
4//7/15 WLIS WMRD radio CT Outdoors with Suzanne Thompson talking about the Thames River and a the Ship Confederacy
09/23-24 & Oct 2-3/15 The Big E with STEAM Ice Cream
09/25-27/15 White Mountain Storytelling Festival Waterville Valley NH- featured storyteller
10/25/15 Bozrah Maples Farm Park Civil War Stories
4/21/16 Earth Day Bridgeport & Ct Sierra Club present No More Pipeline
7/21-24/16 National Storytelling Conference Workshop Presenter “Crafting Your Historical Family Stories”
7/30/16 Pirate and Sea Day at Hempsted House New London
10/13/16 Mattatuck Museum Waterbury Spooky tales for Young Professionals 6 p.m.
10/23/16 Walktober Mansfield “Quietly Revolutionary” Mansfield Old Cemetery Rte 195
10/31/16 Ashford Senior Center Stew and Spooky Stories 11 a.m.
11/18/16 YWCA pre-schools Hartford & E. Hartford Tellabration
12/3/16 Brookside of Avon Winter Theme performance 2 p.m.
12/10/16 Lyman Allyn Art Museum New London CT Family Story telling “Winter/ Dreams” 11 a.m.
2/10/17 Juniper Hill Village Mansfield CT Winter and Historical Stories
’17 Spring Residencies at O’Connell School East Hartford grade 1, Hubbell School – Bristol, Holmes School & Smith School New Britain
3/20 World Storytelling Day!
3/24-2 6/17 LANES Sharing the Fire Storytelling Conference Plymouth MA Workshop and Performance piece
4/12/17 Scotland Public Library “Chasing Vermeer” CT Humanities Book Voyageurs, 4 p.m.
4/23 Storytelling to benefit the Willimantic No-Freeze Shelter- Fitch House Mansfield Center 2 p.m .
5/2 &9 Killingly Book Voyageurs 4:30 p.m. with CT Humanities
5/7/17 Wood Library S. Windsor CT 2p.m. Civil War performance for Families
6/29-7/2 National Storytelling Network Conference Kansas City MO.
9/13/17 Riverside School Play in a Day with CT. Storytelling Center
9/17 Guilford Fair Donkey and Mule Show – Announcing
9/30 Ashabel Woodward House Franklin CT / Civil War Stories / A Woman in Mourning 10-4
10/6 Radio Park Elementary State College PA
10/14 Water’s Farm Fall Days – Donkeys and Storytelling! 10-4 Sutton MA
10/18 The Breadbox Feature Mic for the Covenant Soup Kitchen 15 minutes of performances @ St. Paul’s Valley St Willimantic, CT
10/29 Coventry Farmers Market at Hale Homestead Coventry CT Spooky Stories 11 a.m.
11/12 Sheila Arnold Jones at NEAR & Far Storytellers in The Buttonwood Tree Middletown CT 3 p.m . $10 open mic included
1/12/18 AMC -Appalachian Mountain Club Stew and Stories
4/27-28/18 CT Storytelling Festival New London
10/15/18 Story cafe TV 9 Seekonk MA STEAM & Story
Looking back at Covid time
How did storytelling via Zoom relate? Here is a comment from my online Greenwich Library Tellabration:
“Wow! Carolyn, I just attended the Greenwich Library Tellabration. You told two fabulous stories! I was mesmerized!! You were informative, so inspiring, and very soothing. I loved losing myself in your stories and totally forgetting our current nonsensical reality.
Thank You!!” Judy Petersen