Storyfort events will be buzzing every day of Treefort in various nooks around the city and will be bringing you top-notch authors, poets, journalists, spoken word artists, memoirists, refugee storytellers, podcasters and much more.
One of the featured panels at Treefort 10 will highlight the voices of immigrants and farmworkers and feature ethnic studies professor Dora Ramirez and immigrant rights activist Irene Ruiz. Storyfort will also have events with Idaho Prison Arts Collective and the game of TELEPHONE: An International Arts Game.
All Storyfort programming is included in your Treefort pass, but also open to the public and all ages. Please note not all programming may be suitable for children.
Featured Storytellers
- poet, photographer, and teacher Adam O. Davis
- poet and activist Andrea Gibson
- local writer, poet, and body image activist Amy Pence-Brown
- local author Benjamin Schmidt
- local word artist Billie
- local director, playwright, and poet Calvin Pineda
- award-winning journalist Carissa Wolf
- politics in historical fiction author Carrie Callaghan
- Seattle author Catherine Kyle
- Seattle author Corinne Manning
- writer and Idaho native Ellen Caminiti
- Great Lakes poet and essayist and visiting creative writing lecturer at BSU Emily Pittinos
- local playwright and producer of “punk rock theatre” Grace Ward
- Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), co-founder of 100 Word Story, and co-host of the podcast Write-minded Grant Faulkner
- local film and photo storyteller Guy Hand
- longtime Boise-based journalist and former editor of Boise Weekly Harrison Barry
- local playwright Heidi Kraay
- bestselling author Jason Mott
- novelist Jennifer Haigh
- New York Times Bestselling author Jonathan Evison
- local musician and teacher Jonathan Warren
- local writer, teacher, amateur astrologer and UFO Seeker K Lange
- writer, stand up comedian and BSU student Katie Lotz
- writer and journalist Larry Rosen
- Boise-based student, human rights and environmental activist Lizzy Duke-Moe
- local reader and writer Lyd Havens
- Native Hawaiian writer and the 2019-2021 Idaho Writer in Residence Malia Collins
- sports journalist and co-host of Idaho Sports Talk Mike Prater
- the only entirely student-run theater collective in the state of Idaho Odd Hours Theater Company
- essayist, poet, and fiction short story writer Risë Kevalshar Collins
- award-winning novelist Rita Woods
- local writer, actor, and general theater-maker Tacet Matthew Bunk
- chapbook author Tessy Ward
- Boise-based co-authors David McNeill, Kevin McNeill, and Tim Wendland
- storyteller and movie trailer editor Travis Abels