October 24, 2016
What does bravery mean to you?
We challenged #Story16 participants to share their thoughts on what bravery means to them and pin them on our Wande...
October 17, 2016
13 takeaways from #Story16
What we learned at the sixth edition of The Power of Storytelling.
October 6, 2016
Get ready for #Story16
One week to go, we put together a list of things to read, listen to or watch to get to know the speakers better.
October 3, 2016
Supporter stories: Passion for music doesn’t stop once you’re retired
At 73, Florica loves music as much as she did when she was younger; maybe even more after NN Romania helped her go ...
September 30, 2016
Supporter stories: Programming as a kid
How kids can learn computer programming through games and fun.
September 21, 2016
Supporter stories: UniCredit Bank brings football fans closer to sports performance
By supporting the #UCLTrophyTour, UniCredit Bank wants to inspire people to dream big and strive to overcome obstac...
September 19, 2016
Cătălin Tolontan on the ethics of journalism and the future of media
Cătălin Tolontan is one of the best known and most awarded investigative and sports journalists in Romania. Here ...
September 13, 2016
The conference is sold out
We have closed the registration process, as we’ve booked all the spots. However, we’re putting together a waiti...
September 6, 2016
Tim Howard on his path from music to radio
Tim Howard is the Executive Producer at Reply All, a podcast from Gimlet Media. In his free time, he writes and rec...
August 28, 2016
Jonah Sachs on why stories matter in marketing
Jonah Sachs, the marketing maven of good causes, is returning to The Power of Storytelling after two years with a t...
August 24, 2016
Past participants: Why you should come to #Story16
As we prepare for our sixth edition, we take a look back at what past participants said about the previous ones. Th...
August 16, 2016
Jacqui Banaszynski on the courage of telling stories
Jacqui Banaszynski has been with us from the first edition, both as speaker and as a mentor. She told us stories, t...
August 16, 2016
Tara Skurtu on feeling poetry and letting one’s writing go free
Not getting admitted to medical school made Tara Skurtu follow her passion for poetry. She is now a poetess, a tran...
August 10, 2016
Jon Mooallem on freelancing, the benefits of journalism school and writing about wildlife
Jon Mooallem is the author of Wild Ones, named the best book of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review, and a write...
August 7, 2016
Speakers books translated into Romanian: “The End of The Perfect Ten”, by Dvora Meyers
Romanian readers can now find Dvora Meyers’ book on the evolution of elite women’s gymnastics on local shelves,...
August 2, 2016
Wendy MacNaughton on using drawings and words to convey human emotion
Through her drawings, Wendy MacNaughton tries to take viewers out of their everyday life and context and get them t...
July 31, 2016
Dvora Meyers on writing about your passion
Brooklyn based journalist Dvora Meyers has been researching her niche since she was eight. That’s when she starte...
July 25, 2016
Brian Lindstrom on building intimacy with the subjects of his films
Brian Lindstrom knew he wanted to make films when he was still in primary school. His documentaries aim “to reduc...
July 21, 2016
Caroline Paul on living and writing about a life of adventures
Caroline Paul always knew that she never wanted to have a ”brief case and an office” type of job.
July 17, 2016
Colin Meloy on creating music and performing on stage
Colin’s extensive vocabulary and well known passion for obscure words turned him into one of the most intriguing ...
July 9, 2016
Cheryl Strayed on fear, hiking alone and writing a bestselling book about the experience
When she felt she reached “the bottom of her life”, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a three month hiking trip, then ...
July 4, 2016
David Sedaris: “Keeping a diary helps somehow tame the world around me”
David Sedaris on keeping a diary and what informs his writing: fucked up human behaviour, racial relations in Ameri...
June 27, 2016
Carson Ellis on her creative process and her advice to young artists
Meet 2016 speaker Carson Ellis: insights into her creative process, her charmed life on a farm and being married to...
June 23, 2016
New speakers confirmed
Check out the latest additions to the list of speakers you won’t want to miss this October.
June 23, 2016
Registration open for #story16!
Book your place for the 6th edition of The Power of Storytelling.
May 25, 2016
An evening with David Sedaris
Come meet David Sedaris, one of the best humor writers alive. He will read and sign books on June 20, at ARCUB.
May 3, 2016
2016 speakers announced
Meet the superstar storytellers coming to Bucharest on 14-15 October for our 6th edition.
April 7, 2016
Video: Robert Krulwich on Finding Good Stories
Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich's 2015 keynote on finding good stories, asking questions and never forsaking curio...
April 7, 2016
Video: John Freeman on The New Nowhere
American writer and literary critic John Freeman talked at the 2015 edition about the role of place in today's fict...
April 7, 2016
Video: Dan Perjovschi on Drawing on Walls
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi talked at the 2015 edition about the process behind his internationally acclaimed wo...
April 4, 2016
Video: Michael Paterniti on Projecting Stories
Longtime GQ contributor and author of two New York Times bestselling books Michael Paterniti talked at the 2015 edi...
March 24, 2016
Video: Wendy MacNaughton on Drawing from Life
Illustrator and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton talked at the 2015 edition about mixing art and journalism to ...
March 14, 2016
Video: Richard Hernandez on Mastering Your Visual Voice
Tips and advice on how to create powerful visual stories shared at the 2015 edition by Instagram superstar Richard ...
February 6, 2016
Video: Leslie Jamison on the Possibilities of the Personal
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams spoke at the 2015 edition about personal writing.
January 29, 2016
Video: Carmen Bugan on the Language of Memory
Romanian poet and author Carmen Bugan discussed at the 2015 edition the process of creating literary work from pers...
January 25, 2016
Video: Jacqui Banaszynski on The Importance of Place
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacqui Banaszynski spoke at the 2015 edition about the role of place in stories. Here is the ...
January 24, 2016
Remembering #Story15 on film
Here are the video memories from the fifth edition of our conference.
December 26, 2015
Reading list: Michael Paterniti
2015 speaker Michael Paterniti recommends some of his favorite books, both fiction and non-fiction, that a writer c...
November 1, 2015
Live sketches from #Story15: Oana Lohan
The story of our conference told in drawings by Oana Lohan, shaped as a DIY zine, for you to print and fold.
October 28, 2015
Live sketches from #Story15: Ioana Șopov
Amazing portraits of our speakers, captured live by graphic designer and illustrator Ioana Șopov.
October 25, 2015
Live sketches from #Story15 Cluj
We invited Illustrator Paul Muresan to draw what he saw and heard during the second edition of our Cluj conference.
October 19, 2015
Where I’m From: The collective poem that ended #Story15
This year's conference had a special ending: a collective poem that the speakers read in front of the audience.
October 16, 2015
Story Map
At #Story15 we asked you to bring a printed memory of a special place in your life, write its story and pin it on a...
October 15, 2015
Takeaways from #Story15: Cluj edition
This is the second year The Power of Storytelling also spread its magic in Cluj. Here's what we learned.
October 11, 2015
Takeaways from #Story15: Day 2
Check out the main highlights from Day 2 of The Power of Storytelling.
October 9, 2015
Takeaways from #Story15: Day 1
Here’s what we learned on the first day of The Power of Storytelling conference.
October 7, 2015
Behind the scenes of #Story15
The making of #Story15; the best moments shared on social media captured via Storify.
October 1, 2015
Get ready for #Story15
One week to go. Here's a list of things to read, listen to or watch, essential to get to know the speakers better.
October 1, 2015
Supporter stories: Inside Lateral’s creative process
The story behind one of the games designed by Lateral, from idea to tablet
September 30, 2015
Supporter Stories: Finding the story in the mundane
To mark its rebranding and a change in the way they talk to their clients, NN dropped the statistics and gave voice...
September 28, 2015
Five reasons you should come to The Power of Storytelling in Cluj
With superstar storytellers in all kinds of mediums, this year’s conference is spreading once again to Cluj. We g...
September 27, 2015
Supporter stories: Family reunion
Inside Renault Day, that day of the year when the employees are invited to bring their home families to meet their ...
September 22, 2015
Supporter stories: How Telekom helped teenagers spread stories
In 2014, just before the first issue of Plic, o revistă went to print, Telekom showed interest in sponsoring this ...
September 20, 2015
Two more speakers’ books translated in Romanian
Romanian versions of two more books by our speakers are ready to hit the bookstores at the end of this month: Micha...
September 17, 2015
Supporter stories: Guiding creative entrepreneurs to success
All businesses have origin stories – the flash that sparked the idea, the first sale, the satisfied early adopter...
September 17, 2015
Supporter stories: When sports and technology met
The story behind our partners HTC’s support of Ciclaton, a sports adventure with a fundraising mission.
September 12, 2015
Supporter stories: Romanian tales, as told by HBO
On a stride to find fiction projects that are suitable for it, and also to reach new, talented people to write and ...
September 8, 2015
Two of our speakers’s books translated into Romanian
Romanian readers can now find Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams and John Freeman’s How to Read a Novelist on l...
August 25, 2015
Carmen Bugan: How a children’s story ended up in the secret police’s files
Carmen Bugan wrote about the experience of growing up in communist Romania and having her father arrested for "prop...
August 13, 2015
Richard Koci Hernandez on creating art in the age of „social photography”
Photographer and multimedia journalist Richard Koci Hernandez won an Emmy award in 2008 for his documentary Uproote...
August 11, 2015
14 speakers, 14 reasons to come to The Power of Storytelling
There are hundreds of reasons to join our conference this year, but we narrowed it down to 11 really important ones...
August 6, 2015
Dan Perjovschi: Vanishing Points
Dan Perjovschi draws his trademark figures on the walls of the world’s most important art institutions, but he co...
August 4, 2015
Alexander Nanau on telling real stories through film
Alexander Nanau tells impressive life stories with empathy and skill, making sure they travel around the world, for...
August 3, 2015
Our favourite stories: Michael Paterniti
Michael Paterniti has gone around the world twice looking for stories of people pushed to their limits. From there,...
July 29, 2015
Jacqui Banaszynski on stories that make a difference
Jacqui Banaszynski didn’t set out to become a storyteller, but turned out to be one of the most fervent believers...
July 29, 2015
Chris Jones on doing meaningful work
One of the most important magazine writers in the world weights in on the role luck played in his career.
July 21, 2015
Why is storytelling important
Our 2015 speakers share their belief in the power of stories and talk about how the use of storytelling in their wo...
July 15, 2015
Leslie Jamison: A cheat sheet
12 things you need to know about the author of The Empathy Exams, a spectacular blend of memoir, reporting, and cul...
July 15, 2015
Robert Krulwich on falling in love with your work
Curiosity has followed Robert Krulwich throughout his career, from Columbia Law School, to Award-winning television...
July 14, 2015
#Story15 Theme: A Sense of Place
At this year’s conference our speakers will tackle the idea of place in a story, the way it is conveyed, depicted...
July 2, 2015
John Freeman on interviewing the most famous authors in the world
An unlikely Midwesterner with a passion for basketball became the universal BFF to the contemporary writer. And a p...
July 1, 2015
Wendy MacNaughton on drawing people’s stories
Graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton’s journey to illustration was not a common one. Here are some of the things ...
June 30, 2015
10 storytelling tips from past editions
We celebrate being only 100 days away from our fifth edition with 10 pieces of advice gathered in these past years ...
June 20, 2015
New speakers confirmed
Check out the latest additions to the list of speakers you won’t want to miss this October.
June 15, 2015
Reading list: Laurie Hertzel
We asked 2011 speaker Laurie Hertzel to recommend some of her favorite nonfiction books to read this summer.
June 2, 2015
Daan Louter on digital storytelling and the reader as the user
A Dutch designer and developer combines his design and coding skills to find innovative ways of telling stories for...
May 8, 2015
Announcing 2015 speakers
The wait is over. Here are the superstar storytellers coming to Bucharest this October.
April 19, 2015
Takeaways from the Conference
What we learned from the fifth annual Narrative Conference in Amsterdam.
April 6, 2015
Meet our new partner: Lateral
We’re happy to announce that our conference is now planned, designed and organized together with the awesome peop...
March 31, 2015
#Story15 in the making
This year’s edition is our fifth, so we’re going to make it a truly spectacular experience. Here are some of th...
January 10, 2015
Letter From Jacqui Banaszynski
Jacqui Banaszynski, one of our dearest speakers, writes Christmas letters to friends and family every year. Much of...
January 9, 2015
Amy O’Leary on getting the audience’s attention
Storytelling techniques that journalists can use to get more attention for their stories in a crowded online enviro...
November 24, 2014
Reporting Tips From Jacqui Banaszynski
At the fourth edition of The Power of Storytelling, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and veteran coach Jacqui Banasz...
October 25, 2014
Cluj edition takeaways
After two days of storytelling wisdom in Bucharest, we moved to Cluj for an afternoon of stories with Cristian Lups...
October 17, 2014
Friday takeaways
What happened on the first day of The Power of Storytelling conference.
October 12, 2014
Q&A De Correspondent: Journalism is Storytelling
De Correspondent co-founders Rob Wijnberg and Ernst-Jan Pfauth talked to us about the challenges behind their crowd...
October 7, 2014
Q&A Leigh Hafrey: Storytelling as a leadership tool
We talked with MIT Sloan School of Management Lecturer Leigh Hafrey about the connection between good leaders and g...
September 15, 2014
Q&A Jacqui Banaszynski: Pay attention to the world around you
The lessons of a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter, editor and teacher to young journalists: be deeply curious, liste...
September 10, 2014
Reading list for students: Kelley Benham
The assigments Kelley Benham French is recommending to her students at Indiana University.
September 2, 2014
Q&A Amy O’Leary: Everyone is trying to be innovative right now
New York Times reporter and digital specialist Amy O’Leary talked to us about about social media, innovative news...
August 14, 2014
Reading list: Jonah Sachs
Jonah Sachs recommends a list of marketing books for communicators who want to understand their audiences better.
August 2, 2014
Q&A Lisa Pollak: What makes a good storyteller
Reporter and radio producer Lisa Pollak talked to us about the elements of a good story, what makes radio storytell...
July 20, 2014
Reading list: Leigh Hafrey
Leigh Hafrey, a lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Senio...
July 2, 2014
Q&A Chris Jones: What we write and read matters
Esquire writer-at-large Chris Jones talked to us about his work, the qualities of a good storyteller and what makes...
June 4, 2014
Reading list: Jacqui Banaszynski
We asked Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter, editor and teacher Jacqui Banaszynski to recommend some of her favourite ...